Augustine S Confessions Ten Studies

Author : Johannes van Oort
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004685901

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Augustine's Confessions: Ten Studies by Johannes van Oort Pdf

This book presents new interpretations of essential and well-known passages from Augustine's Confessions. In ten chapters, Augustinian specialist Johannes van Oort analyzes and explains many essential passages in the work from the background of Augustine's thorough knowledge of Manichaeism. This 'Gnostic' variant of Christianity exerted a great influence on the North African Augustine, as evidenced in his most famous and (arguably) most influential work. In a new light appear such figures as Monnica, Ponticianus, Lady Continence, the rather obscure African bishop who speaks of Augustine as "a son of such tears"; events such as the 'illustrious' pear theft, the coming of "a glorious young man" to dreaming Monnica, Augustine's dramatic conversion; basic features such as his concept of 'God', deep sense of (sexual) sin, highly influential reflections on memory, fundamental view of Christ as God's Right Hand and, perhaps most importantly, his mystical spirituality.

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : New City Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781565481404

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Expositions of the Psalms 1-32 (Vol. 1) by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

"As the psalms are a microcosm of the Old Testament, so the Expositions of the Psalms can be seen as a microcosm of Augustinian thought. In the Book of Psalms are to be found the history of the people of Israel, the theology and spirituality of the Old Covenant, and a treasury of human experience expressed in prayer and poetry. So too does the work of expounding the psalms recapitulate and focus the experiences of Augustine's personal life, his theological reflections and his pastoral concerns as Bishop of Hippo."--Publisher's website.

Author : Kim Paffenroth,Robert Peter Kennedy
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664226191

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A Reader's Companion to Augustine's Confessions by Kim Paffenroth,Robert Peter Kennedy Pdf

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 : Ignatius Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781586176839

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The Confessions by Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) Pdf

The Confessions of Saint Augustine is considered one of the greatest Christian classics of all time. It is an extended poetic, passionate, intimate prayer that Augustine wrote as an autobiography sometime after his conversion, to confess his sins and proclaim God's goodness. Just as his first hearers were captivated by his powerful conversion story, so also have many millions been over the following sixteen centuries. His experience of God speaks to us across time with little need of transpositions. This acclaimed new translation by Sister Maria Boulding, O.S.B., masterfully captures his experience, and is written in an elegant and flowing style. Her beautiful contemporary translation of the ancient Confessions makes the classic work more accessible to modern readers. Her translation combines the linguistic accuracy demanded by 4th-century Latin with the poetic power aimed at by Augustine, not as discernable in previous translations.

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : New City Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 9781565480834

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The Confessions by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

Presents an English translation of Saint Augustine's "Confessions" in which the fourth-century bishop reflects on his faith and reveals his sins

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691217642

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Augustine's Confessions by Garry Wills Pdf

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 (Bishop of Hippo.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:43208386

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The Confessions of S. Augustine by Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) Pdf

Author : Augustine
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603845700

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Confessions by Augustine Pdf

Like the first Hackett edition of the Augustine's Confessions, the second edition features F. J. Sheed's remarkable translation of this classic spiritual autobiography with an Introduction by noted historian of late antiquity Peter Brown. New to this edition are a wealth of notes on literary, philosophical, biblical, historical, and liturgical topics by Michael P. Foley, an Editor's Preface, a map, a timeline, paragraph numbers in the text, a glossary, and a thorough index. The text itself has been completely reset, with textual and explanatory notes placed at the foot of the page for easy reference.

Author : Annemaré Kotzé
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004139268

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Augustine's Confessions by Annemaré Kotzé Pdf

This reading of the "Confessions" focuses on its aim to convert its readers (it displays some characteristics of the protreptic genre) and on a specific segment of its potential audience, Augustine's erstwhile co-religionists, the Manichaeans.

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : HARVARD:HNFGE9

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The Confessions of S. Augustine by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Fathers of the church
ISBN : UOM:39015008695887

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The Problem of Free Choice by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

One of Augustine's most important works, written between 388 and 395, this dialogue has as its objective not so much to discuss free will for its own sake as to discuss the problem of evil in reference to the existence of God, who is almighty and all-good.

Author : Saint Augustine
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199537822

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The Confessions by Saint Augustine Pdf

Henry Chadwick, an eminent scholar of early Christianity, has given us the first new English translation in thirty years of Augustine's The Confessions. We witness the future saint's fascination with astrology and with the Manichees, and then follow him through scepticism and disillusion with pagan myths until he finally reaches Christian faith. There are brilliant philosophical musings about Platonism and the nature of God, and touching portraits of Augustine's beloved mother, of St. Ambrose of Milan, and of other early Christians like Victorinus, who gave up a distinguished career as a rhetorician to adopt the orthodox faith. To make The Confessions accessible to contemporary readers, Chadwick provides the most complete and informative notes of any recent translation, and includes an introduction to establish the context.

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107009592

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Augustine: Confessions Books V–IX by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Pdf

The only commentary in English that interprets Augustine's language and thought in Confessions V-IX, for students and teachers of Latin.

Author : John D. Caputo,Michael J. Scanlon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253217318

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Augustine and Postmodernism by John D. Caputo,Michael J. Scanlon Pdf

Scanlon, and Mark Vessey.Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion--Merold Westphal, general editor

Author : Leland Ryken
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433547065

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A Christian Guide to the Classics by Leland Ryken Pdf

Most people are familiar with the classics of Western literature, but few have actually read them. Written to equip readers for a lifetime of learning, this beginner’s guide to reading the classics by renowned literary scholar Leland Ryken answers basic questions readers often have, including “Why read the classics?” and “How do I read a classic?” Offering a list of some of the best works from the last 2,000 years and time-tested tips for effectively engaging with them, this companion to Ryken’s Christian Guides to the Classics series will give readers the tools they need to read, interact with, and enjoy some of history’s greatest literature.