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Retractationes reviews Augustine's own books in public, marking errors and unfinished work

In the mid-420s Augustine wrote Retractationes, reviewing his books in order and noting what he would now qualify. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In the mid-420s Augustine wrote Retractationes, reviewing his books in order and noting what he would now qualify. The instrument is that public errata-and-index. It is not a destruction of the corpus and not a later critical edition's apparatus. Augustine of Hippo's documented role is: He listed and qualified his corpus. Possidius' indiculus is a neighbouring catalogue. He did not invent modern errata as a journal.

Context

Possidius later lists works. Sharing the catalogue with that biographer is required. Anti-Pelagian hardness is not fully withdrawn here. Confessions remains standing. A 17th-century portrait does not illustrate the errata. The setting of Retractationes reviews Augustine's own books in public, marking errors and unfinished work is the public file around 0426-01-01. Driver edu-digital-learning-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of Retractationes reviews Augustine's own books in public, marking errors and unfinished work. Naming Augustine of Hippo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0426-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Why it matters

Improving path from Retractationes reviews Augustine's own books in public, marking errors and unfinished work on 0426-01-01. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Augustine Of Hippo

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.36 · verified

    He listed and qualified his corpus. Possidius' indiculus is a neighbouring catalogue. He did not invent modern errata as a journal.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Pelagianism / AugustineEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, original sin / graceStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Official locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, Retractationes at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/ (opens in a new tab) (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent locator: Britannica — Saint Augustine, Retractations at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, Retractationes (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent carrier: Britannica — Saint Augustine, Retractations (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: a sourced public record of Retractationes reviews Augustine's own books in public, marking errors and unfinished work under 0426-01-01 for Augustine of Hippo. Established: a sourced public record of Retractationes reviews Augustine's own books in public, marking errors and unfinished work under 0426-01-01.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Retractationes reviews Augustine's own books in public, marking errors and unfinished work are separate paths.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorAugustine Of Hippo
  2. contributed toFactRetractationes reviews Augustine's own books in public, marking errors and unfinished work
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Retractationes reviews Augustine's own books in public, marking errors and unfinished work. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/au-retractions

https://factrail.ai/facts/au-retractions

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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