The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's “Confessions”

The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's “Confessions” PDF Author: Tarmo Toom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108491863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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Book Description
Presents the best scholarship on Augustine's Confessions which will facilitate a better understanding of this masterpiece.

The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's “Confessions”

The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's “Confessions” PDF Author: Tarmo Toom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108491863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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Book Description
Presents the best scholarship on Augustine's Confessions which will facilitate a better understanding of this masterpiece.

The Cambridge Companion to Augustine

The Cambridge Companion to Augustine PDF Author: David Vincent Meconi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025338
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 405

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Book Description
This second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.

Augustine: Confessions Books V–IX

Augustine: Confessions Books V–IX PDF Author: Augustin ((saint ;)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107009596
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371

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Book Description
The only commentary in English that interprets Augustine's language and thought in Confessions V-IX, for students and teachers of Latin.

Reading Augustine

Reading Augustine PDF Author: Jason Byassee
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1621897427
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 67

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Book Description
The Confessions of St. Augustine is one of the few Christian classics that is still widely read in the secular academy. Yet, oddly enough, it is not often read in the manner Augustine appears to have intended and in which the church read it for centuries: as a model of conversion, devotion, friendship, and the love of God. This book is a companion for any reader of the Confessions--whether in an academic, ecclesial, or devotional context--informed by the latest scholarship yet always directed toward pushing the reader, with Augustine, toward God.

The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's City of God

The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's City of God PDF Author: David Vincent Meconi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108422519
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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Book Description
Masterfully explains Augustine's major work The City of God book by book through engagement with theology, history and political science.

A Reader's Companion to Augustine's Confessions

A Reader's Companion to Augustine's Confessions PDF Author: Kim Paffenroth
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664226190
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Book Description
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.

Confessions of a Recovering Fundamentalist

Confessions of a Recovering Fundamentalist PDF Author: Keith Ward
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 153269671X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 139

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Book Description
Can theology be expounded almost entirely in jokes? This is an attempt to do so. But it is also a record of how one person recovered from fundamentalism, and found a different, more positive spirituality within Christian faith. It seeks to speak to those who only know an exclusive and dogmatic version of Christianity, and who feel the need for something more universally compassionate and friendly to informed scientific thought. Ward argues that we need to escape from the image of a vindictive, wrathful, judgmental God, who saves just a few people from endless torture for no obvious reason. He proposes instead a view of the universe as evolving towards a goal, guided by a supreme cosmic consciousness, which manifests its nature in this historical process. Jesus is the human image of this consciousness, an image of universal self-giving love and a foreshadowing of the transformation of human lives by their union with the divine. The jokes are there because Christian faith should be really joyful, hopeful, and positive good news for everyone—that there is a spiritual basis and goal of the universe which wills everyone without exception to share in its unlimited wisdom and love.

The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book

The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book PDF Author: Leslie Howsam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107023734
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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Book Description
An accessible and wide-ranging study of the history of the book within local, national and global contexts.

The Confessions of X

The Confessions of X PDF Author: Suzanne M. Wolfe
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 0718039629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Book Description
Winner of the Christianity Today 2017 Book Award! Before he became a father of the Christian Church, Augustine of Hippo loved a woman whose name has been lost to history. This is her story. She met Augustine in Carthage when she was seventeen. She was the poor daughter of a mosaic-layer; he was a promising student and heir to a fortune. His brilliance and passion intoxicated her, but his social class would be forever beyond her reach. She became his concubine, and by the time he was forced to leave her, she was thirty years old and the mother of his son. And his Confessions show us that he never forgot her. She was the only woman he ever loved. In a society in which classes rarely mingle on equal terms, and an unwed mother can lose her son to the burgeoning career of her ambitious lover, this anonymous woman was a first-hand witness to Augustine’s anguished spiritual journey from secretive religious cultist to the celebrated Bishop of Hippo. Giving voice to one of history’s most mysterious women, The Confessions of X tells the story of Augustine of Hippo’s nameless lover, their relationship before his famous conversion, and her life after his rise to fame. A tale of womanhood, faith, and class at the end of antiquity, The Confessions of X is more than historical fiction . . . it is a timeless story of love and loss in the shadow of a theological giant.

Ambient Literature

Ambient Literature PDF Author: Tom Abba
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030414566
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Book Description
This book considers how a combination of place-based writing and location responsive technologies produce new kinds of literary experiences. Building on the work done in the Ambient Literature Project (2016–2018), this books argues that these encounters constitute new literary forms, in which the authored text lies at the heart of an embodied and mediated experience. The visual, sonic, social and historic resources of place become the elements of a live and emergent mise-en-scène. Specific techniques of narration, including hallucination, memory, history, place based writing, and drama, as well as reworking of traditional storytelling forms combine with the work of app and user experience design, interaction, software authoring, and GIS (geographical information systems) to produce ambient experiences where the user reads a textual and sonic literary space. These experiences are temporary, ambiguous, and unpredictable in their meaning but unlike the theatre, the gallery, or the cinema they take place in the everyday shared world. The book explores the potentiality of a new literary form produced by the exchange between location-aware cultural objects, writers and readers. This book, and the work it explores, lays the ground for a new poetics of situated writing and reading practices.