The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine's Confessions
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The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine's Confessions is an engaging introduction to this spiritually creative and intellectually original work. This guidebook is organized by themes:
the importance of language
creation and the sensible world
memory, time and the self
the afterlife of the Confessions.
Written for readers approaching the Confessions for the first time, this guidebook addresses the literary, philosophical, historical and theological complexities of the work in a clear and accessible way. Excerpts in both Latin and English from this seminal work are included throughout the book to provide a close examination of both the autobiographical and theoretical content within the Confessions.
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Product details
- Paperback | 170 pages
- 129 x 198 x 10.16mm | 204g
- 27 Jun 2016
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- ROUTLEDGE
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 1138847984
- 9781138847989
- 877,623
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Table of contents
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Review quote
Sara Lipton, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
"As a guide to reading the Confessions, this book is a beautiful introduction to a classic of Western culture. Conybeare captures the spirit of Augustine's quest for God, confessing what is known and unknown, and invites readers in a delightful way to read much more than Augustine's words."
Allan Fitzgerald, Villanova University, USA
"When Augustine surrenders himself in confession before God and his audience, he could not have wished for a more sympathetic human hearer than Conybeare. She is no disinterested listener, but engages with the conversation in a way that, in turn, enables her own audience to participate in it. The experience is precisely the transformative one that Augustine intended his Confessions to be."
Carol Harrison, Oxford University, UK
"Catherine Conybeare offers an excellent guide to Augustine's autobiographical Confessions. She is not a theologian or church historian. Rather, she is a scholar of classical literature and there fore lends a unique angle to the study of Confessions."
Jack Kilcrease, Aquinas College
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About Catherine Conybeare
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