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Greek language and culture, his attempts to establish contacts with
eastern church leaders, the hesitation of the latter to respond to his calls,
and the widespread ignorance and lack of interest in the east of the
implications of his teaching are reected in that process. Even though
there has been a trickle of Augustinian studies in eastern theology up to
the present day,"#" the impact of Augustinian thought as in the translations
of Planudes and Prochoros Kydones was never reached again.
"#" See Biedermann, Augustinus in der neueren griechischen Theologie, and the more
recent literature cited by Podskalsky, BZ xci (18), 118io.