Pseudo-Augustine

A label of honesty rather than a person: 'Pseudo-Augustine' covers passages the Catena cites from works that circulated under Augustine's name but were written by others. Augustine's authority was so immense that for a millennium anonymous sermons and treatises naturally gravitated toward it — hundreds of spurious sermons attached themselves to his name, alongside works by other identifiable authors filed under his. Medieval compilers like Aquinas had no way to tell; they quoted the best manuscripts they had, in good faith. Scholarship has since sorted genuine from spurious, and modern readers keep these passages for what they are: anonymous voices of the early Latin church, still worth hearing.

Augustine's name attracted so many stray writings that the spurious sermons once attributed to him number in the hundreds.

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