Augustine And Literature

Author : Robert Peter Kennedy
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739113844
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustine and Literature written by Robert Peter Kennedy and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of Christianity on literature has been great throughout history, as has been the influence of the great Christian, Augustine. Augustine and Literature considers the influence of Augustine on the theory and practice of an academic discipline of which he himself was not a practitioner-literature, especially poetry and fiction. The essays in this volume explore the many influences of Augustine on literature, most obviously in terms of themes and symbols, but also more pervasively perhaps in proving that literature strives for meaning through and beyond the fictional or metaphorical surface. The authors discussed in these essays, from Dante and Milton to O'Connor and Faulkner, all demonstrate a common concern that literature must be attentive to the highest things and the deepest journeys of the soul. Together these essays offer a compelling argument that literature and Augustine do belong together in the common task of guiding the soul toward the truth it desires.

Author : Augustine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108752950
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustine: Confessions Books V–IX written by Augustine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books V-IX of the Confessions trace five crucial years in the life of Augustine, from his debut as a teacher of rhetoric in North Africa to his baptism as a Christian and the renunciation of a worldly career in Milan. This commentary will be invaluable for those wishing to read his story in the original Latin. Through careful glosses and notes, Augustine's Latin is made accessible to students of patristics and of classics. His extensive quotations from Scripture are translated and explained in light of the variant Bible texts and the interpretative assumptions through which he came to understand them. The unfolding of his career is set against the background of political, cultural, and religious change in the fourth century, and the art with which he created a form of narrative without precedent in earlier Latin literature is illustrated in close detail.

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691217645
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustine's Confessions written by Garry Wills and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521497633
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustine: Confessions Books I-IV written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanied by a commentary, this volume presents the Latin text of one of the great classics of Christian literature. Books I-IV of the Confessions reflect on Augustine's infancy and childhood, adolescent rebellion and student days, as well as his early teaching career.

Author : Gillian Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198870074
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commentary on Augustine City of God, Books 1-5 written by Gillian Clark and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative English-language commentary discusses Books 1-5, in which Augustine argued that Rome suffered worse disasters before Christianity was known; that empire depends on injustice; and that everything depends on the will of the true God, not on the many gods of Roman tradition.

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Publisher : Castrovilli Giuseppe
ISBN 13 : 9781593773021
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City of God written by and published by Castrovilli Giuseppe. This book was released on 1909 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Augustinus,
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521796651
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustine: On the Trinity Books 8-15 written by Augustinus, and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of Augustine's influential philosophical and theological treatise.

Author : Robert J. Forman
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustine and the Making of a Christian Literature written by Robert J. Forman and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the relationship between pre-Christian and Augustinian aesthetics as it emerges in four of Augustine's major works: De Musica, Confessions, De Doctrina Christiana, and De Civitate Dei. It places these treatises against the historical circumstances in which each was written, and notes their unusual propositions against which the development of early Christian literary theory can be understood. The text considers at length how Augustine modifies secular aesthetics to satisfy the needs of the emerging Church, the role of truth and its relation to literary invention, the place of the self and its relation to community, and the evolution of early secular allegory.

Author : Augustine of Hippo
Publisher : New City Press
ISBN 13 : 1565483871
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confessions written by Augustine of Hippo and published by New City Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an English translation of Saint Augustine's "Confessions" in which the fourth-century bishop reflects on his faith and reveals his sins

Author : Kim Paffenroth
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664226190
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Reader's Companion to Augustine's Confessions written by Kim Paffenroth and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 292 pages. 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.