Modern Augustinian Confession

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 : Augustine
Publisher : Revell
ISBN 13 : 0800787625
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confessions of St. Augustine written by Augustine and published by Revell. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century.

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : New City Press
ISBN 13 : 1565481402
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expositions of the Psalms 1-32 (Vol. 1) written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by New City Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1586176838
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confessions written by Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Paul Rigby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107094925
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theology of Augustine's Confessions written by Paul Rigby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Augustine's Confessions presents his testimony of conversion as an antidote to modern culture's tendency toward disbelief.

Author : Saint Augustine
Publisher : Zondervan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780310346418
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confessions of Augustine in Modern English written by Saint Augustine and published by Zondervan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robin Lane Fox
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465061575
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustine written by Robin Lane Fox and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This narrative of the first half of Augustine's life conjures the intellectual and social milieu of the late Roman Empire with a Proustian relish for detail." --New York Times In Augustine, celebrated historian Robin Lane Fox follows Augustine of Hippo on his journey to the writing of his Confessions. Unbaptized, Augustine indulged in a life of lust before finally confessing and converting. Lane Fox recounts Augustine's sexual sins, his time in an outlawed heretical sect, and his gradual return to spirituality. Magisterial and beautifully written, Augustine is the authoritative portrait of this colossal figure at his most thoughtful, vulnerable, and profound.

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804737937
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confession of Augustine written by Jean-François Lyotard and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyotard approaches his subject by returning to his earliest phenomenological training, rearticulating Augustine's sensory universe from a vantage point imaginarily inside the confessant's world, a vantage point that reveals the intense point of conjuncture between the sensual and the spiritual, the erotic world and the mystical, being and appearance, sin and salvation. Lyotard reveals the very origins of phenomenology in Augustine's narrative, and in so doing also shows the origins of semiotics to lie there (in the explication of the Augustinian heavens as skin, as veil, as vellum).

Author : Augustine
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603845704
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions written by Augustine and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : 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.