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This book examines the nature of Augustinian time as the unfathomable yet permanent focus of the present. What are the implications for Augustine's confessional discourse? How to reconcile the brevity of time's focus with eternity's longueur and the rhetoric of digression?

Produktbeschreibung
This book examines the nature of Augustinian time as the unfathomable yet permanent focus of the present. What are the implications for Augustine's confessional discourse? How to reconcile the brevity of time's focus with eternity's longueur and the rhetoric of digression?
Autorenporträt
M.B. Pranger, Ph.D. (1975), University of Amsterdam, is Professor emeritus at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on the literary aspects of monasticism (Bernard of Clairvaux and the Shape of Monastic Thought (Brill, 1994), The Artificiality of Christianity (Stanford, 2003).