Note 233 — Chapter XIX · LITURGICAL PLAYS (continued)

Pseudo-Augustine, De altercatione Ecclesiae et Synagogae dialogus in P. L. xlii. 1131. On this theme and the débats based thereon cf. Hist. Litt. xxiii. 216; G. Paris, § 155; Pearson, ii. 376. P. Weber, Geistliches Schauspiel und kirchliche Kunst (1894), is mainly occupied with this motive and its place in the religious drama and religious art. It is a most valuable study, but I find no ground for the conjecture (Weber, 31, 36) that the Altercatio, like the Prophetae, had already, before the Antichrist, been semi-dramatically rendered in the liturgy.