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PLOYD, A., Augustine, Martyrdom, and Classical Rhetoric. Oxford University Press, 2023. 184p. Hardback. Using an extensive literature and suggesting a re-visitation of the work of Saint Augustine, one of the most important Christian writers of all time, Adam Ployd's book entitled Augustine, Martyrdom and Classical Rhetoric,...succeeds not only as a work of theological research useful for scholars which suggests a new way of understanding his ideas, his influences and how he came to develop the preceding tradition of the Church, how he sought continuity with it, but is also useful reading for any reader aiming to find out more about the history of Christianity in its earliest centuries, to understand why martyrdom was so important for it and even created a specific rhetoric in the discourse, and how Saint Augustine managed to use this aspect of the life of the Church and to develop an original way of thinking based on it. Iuliu-Marius Morariu, The Recensiones Jan 2024 |a 18/01/2024 (Publisher's information). € 73.37 (New) (approx. delivery time: 14 days) ISBN: 9780190914141