In search of truth : Augustine, Manichaeism, and other gnosticism : studies for Johannes van Oort at sixty

1. Studies in Augustine: Confessions, Sermons, Letters & De Haeresibus Augustine on Grace & Pluralism Augustinian 'Gnosis' Annemare Kotze, Protreptic, Paraenetic and Augustine's Confessions Therese Fuhrer, Allegorical Reading and Writing in Augustine's Confessions Josef Lossl, Augustine's Confessions as a Consolation of Philosophy Anthony Dupont, Sermones 29 and 29A on Ps. 117,1 (118,1): Two Early Carthaginian Sermones ad Populum on the Meaning of Confessio during the Vigil of Pentecost? Vincent Hunink, 'Practicing What He Had Taught': Augustine's Sermons on Cyprian Sigrid Mratschek, Die ungeschriebenen Briefe des Augustinus von Hippo Gian Ackermans, Einige rechtliche und theologische Fragen zu den Abeloitae in Augustins De haeresibus Daniela Muller, Der augustinische Haresiebegriff als Grundlage fur die Ketzerverfolgung im Mittelalter Marcel Poorthuis, Judaism, Augustine and Pope Benedict XVI on the Plurality of Opinions Matthias Smalbrugge, Le Fils prodigue vu par Augustin: un pas vers l'exclusivisme de la grace Paul Hendrik Fick, Traces of Augustinian 'Gnosis' in Julianus Pomerius' De Vita Contemplativa 2. Studies in Manichaeism: Origins & Myth Doctrines & Cult Diffusion & Art Eugenia Smagina, The Manichaean Cosmogonical Myth as a Re-Written Bible Samuel N.C. Lieu & John S. Sheldon, Simplicius on Manichaean Cosmogony Nils-Arne Pedersen, The Veil and Revelation of the Father of Greatness Majella Franzmann, The Treasure of the Manichaean Spiritual Life Iain Gardner, Manichaean Ritual Practice at Ancient Kellis: A New Understanding of the Meaning and Function of the So-Called Prayer of the Emanations Tamila Mgaloblishvili and Stephen H. Rapp Jr., Manichaeism in Late Antique Georgia? Erica Hunter, Syriac Sources and Manichaeism: A Five Hundred Year Trajectory Jorinde Ebert, Four Fragments of Guardian Deities in a Manichaean Painting From Toyok in Berlin's Turfan Collection Reassembled and Interpreted Zsuzsanna Gulacsi, Chinese Manichaean Silk Painting Takoa Moriyasu, The Discovery of Manichaean Paintings in Japan and Their Historical Background 3.. Studies in Manichaeism and Augustine: Doctrines Polemics & Debates with Manichaean Contemporaries J. Kevin Coyle, Jesus, Mani, and Augustine Concetta Giuffre Scibona, The Doctrine of the Soul in Manichaeism and Augustine Gunner Mikkelsen, Augustine and His Sources: The Devil's Snares and Birdlime in the Mouths of Manichaeans in East and West Byard Bennett, Globus horribilis : The Role of the Bolos in Manichaean Eschatology and Its Polemical Transformation in Augustine's Anti-Manichaean Writings Andreas Grote, Optimi viri sanctissimique: Augustins Konzept einer Synthese von Askese und Pastoral in De moribus 1,65-80. Eine Replik auf manichaische Polemik Jason D. BeDuhn, Did Augustine Win His Debate with Fortunatus? Andreas Hoffmann, Secundinus in der Diskussion mit Augustinus uber das malum: Beobachtungen zu den augustinischen Quellen der Epistula Secundini Giulia Sfameni Gasparro, The Disputation with Felix: Themes and Modalities of Augustine's Polemic 4. Studies in 'Other Gnosticism': Gnosticism and 'Apocryphal' Texts Sources of (Ps.) Hippolytus' Refutatio the Gospel of Judas Modern Yesidi Gnosticism Tobias Nicklas, Apokryph gewordene Schriften? Gedanken zum Apokryphenbegriff bei grosskirchlichen Autoren und in einigen Texten Clemens Scholten, Quellen regen an: Beobachtungen zum gnostischen Sondergut der Refutatio omnium haeresium Madeleide Scopello, Motifs et expressions mystiques dans l'Evangile de Judas Gerard Rouwhorst, The Gospel of Judas and Early Christian Eucharist April D. DeConick, After the Gospel of Judas: Reassessing What We Have Known to be True about Cain and Judas Eszter Spat, The Song of the Commoner: The Gnostic Call in Yezidi Oral Tradition