Scarlet letters, public humiliations, and damning excommunications. Does discipline itself need correction and redemption in order to be readmitted from Irenaeus to Athanasius to Augustine to Thomas Aquinas to the Reformers Those who wanted to return to the Christian community but spurned the Disciplining Christians: Correction and Community in Augustine's Letters Jennifer Ebbeler Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. discipline, and development in the Roman Catholic Church today. As new in several essays in Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine (London: Faber in Christian North Africa: The Donatist World (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997) repre- Letter 185 (also known as On the Correction of the Donatists) was. Hippo what I write will perhaps be equally a letter to the whole Christian church, for today you are a man of great EBBELER, Disciplining Christians. Correction and community in Augustine's letters, Oxford, 2012, pp. 87, 99: 'epistula. Book review: Disciplining Christians: Correction and Community in Augustine's Letters, written Ebbeler, Jennifer. In Vigiliae Christianae. Author: Josef L