Augustine the Reader
Title | Augustine the Reader PDF eBook |
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.
Reading Augustine
Title | Reading Augustine PDF eBook |
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.
Augustine's Confessions
Title | Augustine's Confessions PDF eBook |
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.
An Augustine Reader
Title | An Augustine Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Saint Augustine (of Hippo) |
Publisher | Image |
Total Pages | 564 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
An Augustine reader
Title | An Augustine reader PDF eBook |
Author | Aurelius Augustinus (Heiliger) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Reader's Companion to Augustine's Confessions
Title | A Reader's Companion to Augustine's Confessions PDF eBook |
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.
Reading Augustine
Title | Reading Augustine PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Byassee |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | 102 |
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.