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Author : Brian Stock
Release : 2009-06-30
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 045/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Augustine the Reader by : Brian Stock
Download or read book Augustine the Reader written by Brian Stock. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Release : 2006-10-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 427/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reading Augustine by : Jason Byassee
Download or read book Reading Augustine written by Jason Byassee. This book was released on 2006-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Release : 2005-09-19
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 726/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Mysticism of Saint Augustine by : John Peter Kenney
Download or read book The Mysticism of Saint Augustine written by John Peter Kenney. This book was released on 2005-09-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Release : 1973
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis An Augustine Reader by : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Download or read book An Augustine Reader written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo). This book was released on 1973. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kim Paffenroth
Release : 2003-01-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 190/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Reader's Companion to Augustine's Confessions by : Kim Paffenroth
Download or read book A Reader's Companion to Augustine's Confessions written by Kim Paffenroth. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
