James Boyd White

Let in the Light

Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions

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Produktbeschreibung

James Boyd White invites readers to join him in a close and engaged encounter with St. Augustineâ s Confessions. He offers an accessible guide to reading the text in Latinâ even for those who have never studied the languageâ guiding readers to experience the immediacy, urgency, and vitality of Augustineâ s writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 138mm x 216mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780231205016
• ISBN-10: 0231205015
• Artikelnr.: 62636065

Autorenporträt

James Boyd White

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
An Outline of Augustine's Life up to the Composition of the Confessions
Part I
1. The Shape of the Confessions
2. The First Three Sentences (Book 1)
3. The Movement from One Mode of Thought to Another (Book 1)
4. Remembering Early Childhood and Language Breaking Down (Book 1)
Part II
5. Adolescence, Sex, and the Stolen Pears (Book 2)
6. Love, Philosophy, and Monnica's Dream (Book 3)
7. Friendship and Struggles with Manicheism (book 4)
8. From the Manichees to Ambrose (Book 5)
9. Certainty and Uncertainty (Book 6)
10. Imagining God and the Origin of Evil (Book 7)
11. The Conversion in the Garden (Book 8)
12. What It Meant (Book 9)
Part III
13. Memory, Sin, and Redemption (Book 10)
14. Time (Book 11)
15. Reading Genesis: The Creation Story (Book 12)
16. "Knock and It Shall Be Opened unto You" (Book 13)
Coda
Notes
Index