[PDF] Augustine And Literature eBook

Author : Robert Peter Kennedy
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780739113844

GET BOOK

The influence of Christianity on literature has been great throughout history, as has been the influence of the great Christian, Augustine. Augustine and Literature considers the influence of Augustine on the theory and practice of an academic discipline of which he himself was not a practitioner-literature, especially poetry and fiction. The essays in this volume explore the many influences of Augustine on literature, most obviously in terms of themes and symbols, but also more pervasively perhaps in proving that literature strives for meaning through and beyond the fictional or metaphorical surface. The authors discussed in these essays, from Dante and Milton to O'Connor and Faulkner, all demonstrate a common concern that literature must be attentive to the highest things and the deepest journeys of the soul. Together these essays offer a compelling argument that literature and Augustine do belong together in the common task of guiding the soul toward the truth it desires.

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 38,48 MB
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691217645

GET BOOK

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 : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 22,72 MB
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108752950

GET BOOK

Books V-IX of the Confessions trace five crucial years in the life of Augustine, from his debut as a teacher of rhetoric in North Africa to his baptism as a Christian and the renunciation of a worldly career in Milan. This commentary will be invaluable for those wishing to read his story in the original Latin. Through careful glosses and notes, Augustine's Latin is made accessible to students of patristics and of classics. His extensive quotations from Scripture are translated and explained in light of the variant Bible texts and the interpretative assumptions through which he came to understand them. The unfolding of his career is set against the background of political, cultural, and religious change in the fourth century, and the art with which he created a form of narrative without precedent in earlier Latin literature is illustrated in close detail.

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0813217431

GET BOOK

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 : Gillian Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198870074

GET BOOK

This authoritative English-language commentary discusses Books 1-5, in which Augustine argued that Rome suffered worse disasters before Christianity was known; that empire depends on injustice; and that everything depends on the will of the true God, not on the many gods of Roman tradition.

Author : Robert J. Forman
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

GET BOOK

This study examines the relationship between pre-Christian and Augustinian aesthetics as it emerges in four of Augustine's major works: De Musica, Confessions, De Doctrina Christiana, and De Civitate Dei. It places these treatises against the historical circumstances in which each was written, and notes their unusual propositions against which the development of early Christian literary theory can be understood. The text considers at length how Augustine modifies secular aesthetics to satisfy the needs of the emerging Church, the role of truth and its relation to literary invention, the place of the self and its relation to community, and the evolution of early secular allegory.

Author : Augustine of Hippo
Publisher : New City Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 1565483871

GET BOOK

Presents an English translation of Saint Augustine's "Confessions" in which the fourth-century bishop reflects on his faith and reveals his sins

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,63 MB
Release : 1995-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521497633

GET BOOK

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.

Author : Augustinus,
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 31,27 MB
Release : 2002-07-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521796651

GET BOOK

A new edition of Augustine's influential philosophical and theological treatise.

Author : Kim Paffenroth
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 39,22 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664226190

GET BOOK

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.