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200 10$aAugustine's Confessions$b[electronic resource] $ea biography /$fGarry Wills
205   $aCourse Book
210   $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2011
215   $a1 online resource (177 p.)
225 1 $aLives of great religious books
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-691-14357-9 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aThe book's birth -- The book's genre -- The book's African days -- The book's Ambrose -- The book's "conversion" -- The book's baptismal days -- The book's culmination -- The book's afterlife : early reception, later neglect.
330   $aIn this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills's biography of Augustine and his translation of the Confessions, this is an unparalleled introduction to one of the most important books in the Christian and Western traditions. Understandably fascinated by the story of Augustine's life, modern readers have largely succumbed to the temptation to read the Confessions as autobiography. But, Wills argues, this is a mistake. The book is not autobiography but rather a long prayer, suffused with the language of Scripture and addressed to God, not man. Augustine tells the story of his life not for its own significance but in order to discern how, as a drama of sin and salvation leading to God, it fits into sacred history. "We have to read Augustine as we do Dante," Wills writes, "alert to rich layer upon layer of Scriptural and theological symbolism." Wills also addresses the long afterlife of the book, from controversy in its own time and relative neglect during the Middle Ages to a renewed prominence beginning in the fourteenth century and persisting to today, when the Confessions has become an object of interest not just for Christians but also historians, philosophers, psychiatrists, and literary critics. With unmatched clarity and skill, Wills strips away the centuries of misunderstanding that have accumulated around Augustine's spiritual classic.
410  0$aLives of great religious books.
606   $aChristian saints$zAlgeria$zHippo (Extinct city)$vBiography$xHistory and criticism
610   $aAcademic skepticism.
610   $aAdolf von Harnack.
610   $aAgeless Wisdom.
610   $aAnguish.
610   $aAsceticism.
610   $aAstrology.
610   $aAugustine of Hippo.
610   $aAutobiography.
610   $aBeing and Time.
610   $aBible.
610   $aBildungsroman.
610   $aBook of Confessions.
610   $aBook.
610   $aCelibacy.
610   $aChristian.
610   $aChristianity.
610   $aChurch Fathers.
610   $aConfessions (Augustine).
610   $aConsciousness.
610   $aConsecration.
610   $aCreation myth.
610   $aCriticism.
610   $aDasein.
610   $aDonatism.
610   $aEcclesiology.
610   $aEdmund Husserl.
610   $aExamination of conscience.
610   $aExistentialism.
610   $aExplanation.
610   $aFacsimile.
610   $aFalse prophet.
610   $aForgetting.
610   $aGervasius and Protasius.
610   $aGifford Lectures.
610   $aGod.
610   $aGoethe's Faust.
610   $aHannah Arendt.
610   $aHedonism.
610   $aHenri Bergson.
610   $aHierius.
610   $aHis Family.
610   $aHistoricity.
610   $aHistoriography.
610   $aJacques Derrida.
610   $aJean-François Lyotard.
610   $aJean-Jacques Rousseau.
610   $aJohn Colet.
610   $aLate Antiquity.
610   $aLecture.
610   $aLudwig Wittgenstein.
610   $aManichaeism.
610   $aMarian devotions.
610   $aMartin Heidegger.
610   $aNarrative.
610   $aNeoplatonism.
610   $aNoam Chomsky.
610   $aOn Memory.
610   $aOn the Trinity.
610   $aOral tradition.
610   $aParchment.
610   $aPaulinus of Nola.
610   $aPelagianism.
610   $aPelagius.
610   $aPerversion.
610   $aPhenomenon.
610   $aPhilosopher.
610   $aPhilosophy.
610   $aPlotinus.
610   $aPostmodernism.
610   $aPredestination.
610   $aPsalms.
610   $aPsychobiography.
610   $aRebecca West.
610   $aRebuke.
610   $aReligion.
610   $aReligious text.
610   $aRenunciation.
610   $aRhetoric.
610   $aRomanticism.
610   $aRundown (Scientology).
610   $aSaint Monica.
610   $aScholasticism.
610   $aSeptuagint.
610   $aSermon.
610   $aShorthand.
610   $aSimplician.
610   $aSpecific gravity.
610   $aSuperstition.
610   $aSøren Kierkegaard.
610   $aTanakh.
610   $aThe Christian Community.
610   $aThe First Man.
610   $aTheft.
610   $aTheology.
610   $aThomas Aquinas.
610   $aThought.
610   $aThérèse of Lisieux.
610   $aTreatise.
610   $aValentinian (play).
610   $aWriting.
615  0$aChristian saints$xHistory and criticism.
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