Author : David Vincent Meconi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107025338
This second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.
Author : Tarmo Toom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108491863
Presents the best scholarship on Augustine's Confessions which will facilitate a better understanding of this masterpiece.
Author : Mark Vessey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1118255437
A Companion to Augustine presents a fresh collection of scholarship by leading academics with a new approach to contextualizing Augustine and his works within the multi-disciplinary field of Late Antiquity, showing Augustine as both a product of the cultural forces of his times and a cultural force in his own right. Discusses the life and works of Augustine within their full historical context, rather than privileging the theological context Presents Augustine’s life, works and leading ideas in the cultural context of the late Roman world, providing a vibrant and engaging sense of Augustine in action in his own time and place Opens up a new phase of study on Augustine, sensitive to the many and varied perspectives of scholarship on late Roman culture State-of-the-art essays by leading academics in this field
Author : David Vincent Meconi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108422519
Masterfully explains Augustine's major work The City of God book by book through engagement with theology, history and political science.
Author : George Forrest Browne
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Church history
ISBN :
Author : Jason Byassee
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 18,51 MB
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : 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.
Author : Kim Paffenroth
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,84 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : 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.
Author : James K. A. Smith
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 149341996X
★ Publishers Weekly starred review One of the Top 100 Books and One of the 5 Best Books in Religion for 2019, Publishers Weekly Christianity Today 2020 Book Award Winner (Spiritual Formation) Outreach 2020 Resource of the Year (Spiritual Growth) Foreword INDIES 2019 Honorable Mention for Religion This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker knows far more about us than we might expect. Following Smith's successful You Are What You Love, this book shows how Augustine can be a pilgrim guide to a spirituality that meets the complicated world we live in. Augustine, says Smith, is the patron saint of restless hearts--a guide who has been there, asked our questions, and knows our frustrations and failed pursuits. Augustine spent a lifetime searching for his heart's true home and he can help us find our way. "What makes Augustine a guide worth considering," says Smith, "is that he knows where home is, where rest can be found, what peace feels like, even if it is sometimes ephemeral and elusive along the way." Addressing believers and skeptics alike, this book shows how Augustine's timeless wisdom speaks to the worries and struggles of contemporary life, covering topics such as ambition, sex, friendship, freedom, parenthood, and death. As Smith vividly and colorfully brings Augustine to life for 21st-century readers, he also offers a fresh articulation of Christianity that speaks to our deepest hungers, fears, and hopes.
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0813217431
This volume offers a comprehensive portrait--or rather, self-portrait, since its words are mostly Augustine's own--drawn from the breadth of his writings and from the long course of his career
Author : Natalie Carnes
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1503612317
A meditation on the conversions, betrayals, and divine revelations of motherhood. What if Augustine's Confessions had been written not by a man, but by a mother? How might her tales of desire, temptation, and transformation differ from his? In this memoir, Natalie Carnes describes giving birth to a daughter and beginning a story of conversion strikingly unlike Augustine's—even as his journey becomes a surprising companion to her own. The challenges Carnes recounts will be familiar to many parents. She wonders what and how much she should ask her daughter to suffer in resisting racism, patriarchy, and injustice. She wrestles with an impulse to compel her child to flourish, and reflects on what this desire reveals about human freedom. She negotiates the conflicting demands of a religiously divided home, a working motherhood, and a variety of social expectations, and traces the hopes and anxieties such negotiations expose. The demands of motherhood continually open for her new modes of reflection about deep Christian commitments and age-old human questions. Addressing first her child and then her God, Carnes narrates how a child she once held within her body grows increasingly separate, provoking painful but generative change. Having given birth, she finds that she herself is reborn.
