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Author | : Brian Stock |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674044045 |
Stock displays an enviable and intimate knowledge of the text of Augustine, above all of his Confessions and, as the book progresses, of the De Trinitate.
Author | : Jason Byassee |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 75 |
Release | : 2006-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1621897427 |
The Confessions of St. Augustine is one of the few Christian classics that is still widely read in the secular academy. Yet, oddly enough, it is not often read in the manner Augustine appears to have intended and in which the church read it for centuries: as a model of conversion, devotion, friendship, and the love of God. This book is a companion for any reader of the Confessions--whether in an academic, ecclesial, or devotional context--informed by the latest scholarship yet always directed toward pushing the reader, with Augustine, toward God.
Author | : John Peter Kenney |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2005-09-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1134442726 |
Augustine's vision at Ostia is one of the most influential accounts of mystical experience in the Western tradition, and a subject of persistent interest to Christians, philosophers and historians. This book explores Augustine's account of his experience as set down in the Confessions and considers his mysticism in relation to his classical Platonist philosophy. John Peter Kenney argues that while the Christian contemplative mysticism created by Augustine is in many ways founded on Platonic thought, Platonism ultimately fails Augustine in that it cannot retain the truths that it anticipates. The Confessions offer a response to this impasse by generating two critical ideas in medieval and modern religious thought: firstly, the conception of contemplation as a purely epistemic event, in contrast to classical Platonism; secondly, the tenet that salvation is absolutely distinct from enlightenment.
Author | : Garry Wills |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2021-07-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691217645 |
From Pulitzer Prize–winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine’s Confessions In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills's biography of Augustine and his translation of the Confessions, this is an unparalleled introduction to one of the most important books in the Christian and Western traditions. Understandably fascinated by the story of Augustine's life, modern readers have largely succumbed to the temptation to read the Confessions as autobiography. But, Wills argues, this is a mistake. The book is not autobiography but rather a long prayer, suffused with the language of Scripture and addressed to God, not man. Augustine tells the story of his life not for its own significance but in order to discern how, as a drama of sin and salvation leading to God, it fits into sacred history. "We have to read Augustine as we do Dante," Wills writes, "alert to rich layer upon layer of Scriptural and theological symbolism." Wills also addresses the long afterlife of the book, from controversy in its own time and relative neglect during the Middle Ages to a renewed prominence beginning in the fourteenth century and persisting to today, when the Confessions has become an object of interest not just for Christians but also historians, philosophers, psychiatrists, and literary critics. With unmatched clarity and skill, Wills strips away the centuries of misunderstanding that have accumulated around Augustine's spiritual classic.
Author | : Saint Augustine (of Hippo) |
Publisher | : Image |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mélanie Watt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780143503668 |
Although Augustine is nervous about moving from the South Pole to her new home at the North Pole, her drawings, which imitate famous paintings, help her break the ice at school. Suggested level: junior.
Author | : Kim Paffenroth |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780664226190 |
This book is a tool for teaching and studying the great Christian classic, Augustine's Confessions. It is a unique venture in which thirteen different scholars look at each of the thirteen books in the Confessions and interpret their chapters in light of that book and in light of the rest of Augustine's work. The result is that the richness and ambiguity of Augustine's work shines through as well as the richness and ambiguity of different readings of the Confessions.
Author | : Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Theology |
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Author | : James K. A. Smith |
Publisher | : Brazos Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 149341996X |
★ Publishers Weekly starred review One of the Top 100 Books and One of the 5 Best Books in Religion for 2019, Publishers Weekly Christianity Today 2020 Book Award Winner (Spiritual Formation) Outreach 2020 Resource of the Year (Spiritual Growth) Foreword INDIES 2019 Honorable Mention for Religion This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker knows far more about us than we might expect. Following Smith's successful You Are What You Love, this book shows how Augustine can be a pilgrim guide to a spirituality that meets the complicated world we live in. Augustine, says Smith, is the patron saint of restless hearts--a guide who has been there, asked our questions, and knows our frustrations and failed pursuits. Augustine spent a lifetime searching for his heart's true home and he can help us find our way. "What makes Augustine a guide worth considering," says Smith, "is that he knows where home is, where rest can be found, what peace feels like, even if it is sometimes ephemeral and elusive along the way." Addressing believers and skeptics alike, this book shows how Augustine's timeless wisdom speaks to the worries and struggles of contemporary life, covering topics such as ambition, sex, friendship, freedom, parenthood, and death. As Smith vividly and colorfully brings Augustine to life for 21st-century readers, he also offers a fresh articulation of Christianity that speaks to our deepest hungers, fears, and hopes.
Author | : Jason Byassee |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2006-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1597525294 |
The 'Confessions' of St. Augustine is one of the few Christian classics that is still widely read in the secular academy. Yet, oddly enough, it is not often read in the manner Augustine appears to have intended and in which the church read it for centuries: as a model of conversion, devotion, friendship, and the love of God. This book is a companion for any reader of the Confessions -- whether in an academic, ecclesial, or devotional context -- informed by the latest scholarship yet always directed toward pushing the reader, with Augustine, toward God.