A Reader's Companion to Augustine's ConfessionsKim Paffenroth, Robert Peter Kennedy 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Augustines Book of Shadows | 25 |
The Trappings of | 53 |
The Disclosure of Hidden Providence | 71 |
Major Characters | 89 |
Inner Vision as the Goal | 107 |
Conversion Scene | 127 |
The Self Seeking the | 155 |
Exegesis and Confessio | 185 |
The Creation of the Church | 207 |
Notes | 225 |
For Further Reading | 261 |
Common terms and phrases
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