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The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine's Confessions

2016-06-17 Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine's Confessions by : Catherine Conybeare

Download or read book The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine's Confessions written by Catherine Conybeare. This book was released on 2016-06-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustine’s Confessions is one of the most significant works of Western culture. Cast as a long, impassioned conversation with God, it is intertwined with passages of life-narrative and with key theological and philosophical insights. It is enduringly popular, and justly so. The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine’s Confessions is an engaging introduction to this spiritually creative and intellectually original work. This guidebook is organized by themes: the importance of language creation and the sensible world memory, time and the self the afterlife of the Confessions. Written for readers approaching the Confessions for the first time, this guidebook addresses the literary, philosophical, historical and theological complexities of the work in a clear and accessible way. Excerpts in both Latin and English from this seminal work are included throughout the book to provide a close examination of both the autobiographical and theoretical content within the Confessions.

The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's “Confessions”

2020-03-05 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2020-03-05
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's “Confessions” by : Tarmo Toom

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's “Confessions” written by Tarmo Toom. This book was released on 2020-03-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the best scholarship on Augustine's Confessions which will facilitate a better understanding of this masterpiece.

A Reader's Companion to Augustine's Confessions

2003-01-01 Religion
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Release : 2003-01-01
Genre : Religion
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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.

Augustine's Confessions

2020-10-29 Religion
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Release : 2020-10-29
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Book Synopsis Augustine's Confessions by : Robert Hunter Craig

Download or read book Augustine's Confessions written by Robert Hunter Craig. This book was released on 2020-10-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustine's Confessions: Conversion and Consciousness argues two original positions concerning the structure and meaning of the Confessions by Augustine. The structure is found to be a tool used by Augustine in his earlier pre-Confessions writings in which he uses the Allegory of the Cave in book VII of the Republic by Plato to both describe human consciousness and as a structural framework for his own life story. As with Plato's allegory, Augustine then uses Books X-XIII to do, what the author calls, "Scriptural Philosophical" analysis of the allegorical prayer previously given. The author shows that the Confessions is really an allegorical quasi-prayer that shows Augustine's state of mind or disposition through space/time—and at the same time uses different personas, schools of thought and metaphysical constructs to show the inadequacy of Plato's consciousness model of the cave to truly describe human ratiocination within consciousness in its totality—Synchronic-Synthetic-Triplex (SST) or body, mind, God-Will substance. Instead, Augustine demonstrates the superiority of the Christian conversion to that of the Platonic as described both by Platonic books and the books of the Platonists. The Christian conversion is based on the incarnate Wisdom of Christ Jesus within the Cave/World.

Augustine's Confessions and Contemporary Concerns

2022-03-25 Religion
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Release : 2022-03-25
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Book Synopsis Augustine's Confessions and Contemporary Concerns by : Meconi Sj David Vincent

Download or read book Augustine's Confessions and Contemporary Concerns written by Meconi Sj David Vincent. This book was released on 2022-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustine's Confessions and Contemporary Concerns takes each of the thirteen books of Augustine's classic omnibiography to see how the major themes contained therein still speak to each of us today. The Bishop of Hippo never intended that the audience for his work be limited to himself and his contemporaries. He wrote on the perennial themes of childhood, humanity's search for meaning, the relationship between religion and science, and the nature of Christian conversion, as well as the philosophical implications of time, embodiment, of reading rightly, and many other longings that will always be found in the restless heart.Accordingly, scholars expert in Augustine came together to ask what each book of his Confessions offer for the modern mind. This commentary on the Confessions opens with John Martens on infancy and human growth (Book 1), David Vincent Meconi, SJ, on sin as self-sabotage (Book 2), Jeffrey Lehman on Augustine's understanding of presence and love (Book 3), Augustine's aesthetics as explained by Erika Kidd (Book 4), Christopher J. Thompson on the importance of identity and inclusivity (Book 5), and the Dominican Andrew Hofer on Augustinian anxiety (Book 6), before Gerald Boersma explains the limits of vision when trying to "see" God (Book 7). Paul Ruff appears next as he discusses the nature of conversion and the transformational journey to one's truest self (Book 8), while John Peter Kenney explains what Augustine means by Christian Transcendentalism (Book 9). Hilary Finley illuminates the importance and meaning of Augustine's stress on memory and individualism (Book 10), followed by Veronica Roberts Ogle on the nature of time (Book 11), and Margaret Blume Freddoso on contemplation and prayer (Book 12), concluding with Joseph Grone on Augustine's understanding of the Church Christ founded (Book 13). These essays will shed insight on Augustine's master work, proving useful to readers of all levels, to those interested in both patristic theology as well as in contemporary questions of meaning.

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