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Autore: Wills Garry <1934-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Augustine's Confessions : a biography / / Garry Wills Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2011
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
Disciplina: 270.2092
Soggetto topico: Christian saints - Algeria - Hippo (Extinct city) - History and criticism
Soggetto non controllato: Academic skepticism
Adolf von Harnack
Ageless Wisdom
Anguish
Asceticism
Astrology
Augustine of Hippo
Autobiography
Being and Time
Bible
Bildungsroman
Book of Confessions
Book
Celibacy
Christian
Christianity
Church Fathers
Confessions (Augustine)
Consciousness
Consecration
Creation myth
Criticism
Dasein
Donatism
Ecclesiology
Edmund Husserl
Examination of conscience
Existentialism
Explanation
Facsimile
False prophet
Forgetting
Gervasius and Protasius
Gifford Lectures
God
Goethe's Faust
Hannah Arendt
Hedonism
Henri Bergson
Hierius
His Family
Historicity
Historiography
Jacques Derrida
Jean-François Lyotard
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Colet
Late Antiquity
Lecture
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Manichaeism
Marian devotions
Martin Heidegger
Narrative
Neoplatonism
Noam Chomsky
On Memory
On the Trinity
Oral tradition
Parchment
Paulinus of Nola
Pelagianism
Pelagius
Perversion
Phenomenon
Philosopher
Philosophy
Plotinus
Postmodernism
Predestination
Psalms
Psychobiography
Rebecca West
Rebuke
Religion
Religious text
Renunciation
Rhetoric
Romanticism
Rundown (Scientology)
Saint Monica
Scholasticism
Septuagint
Sermon
Shorthand
Simplician
Specific gravity
Superstition
Søren Kierkegaard
Tanakh
The Christian Community
The First Man
Theft
Theology
Thomas Aquinas
Thought
Thérèse of Lisieux
Treatise
Valentinian (play)
Writing
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: The 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Augustine's Confessions  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78268-555-3
1-282-97637-0
9786612976377
1-4008-3802-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809832503321
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Serie: Lives of great religious books.