The Confessions

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Author : Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)
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Release : 1876
File : 462 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:HN5JP4


The Confessions

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In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art. Augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive, his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high power at the imperial court of Milan, and his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage as he recovered the faith that his mother had taught him. It was in a Milan garden that Augustine finally achieved the act of will to Christian conversion, which he compared to a lazy man in bed finally deciding it is time to get up and face the day. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Saint Augustine
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release : 2008-08-14
File : 468 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780191500978


Augustine The Confessions

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Augustine's Confessions, written at the end of the fourth century, is a landmark text in the history of European culture. Augustine tells how and why he abandoned a successful career to follow a life of prayer and study, and how he sought for a true understanding of God and the Bible.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Gillian Clark
Publisher : CUP Archive
Release : 1993-09-23
File : 132 Pages
ISBN-13 : 052140942X


The Confessions Of Jeremiah In Context

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The 'Confessions' of Jeremiah have generally been interpreted as isolated poems interspersed among prophetic oracles. This book endeavours to read the Confessions in their present literary context. Diamond argues persuasively that the more the Confessions are isolated from their setting in the book of Jeremiah, the more opaque and indeterminate readings of them become. When they are allowed to function in the context determined for them by the editors of Jeremiah, they promote the editorial valuation of the prophet's mission-Israel's opposition to Jeremiah becomes the ground for a theodicy explaining the national disaster. Restoring the Confessions to their context in the book finally enables the author to demonstrate that chapters 11-20 form an integrated literary complex.

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Genre : Religion
Author : A.R. Pete Diamond
Publisher : A&C Black
Release : 1987-01-01
File : 313 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780567263674


On The Confessions As Confessio

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This is a new guide to reading the Confessions, Augustine's most important work, and what is widely known as the first Western Christian autobiography ever written. The Confessions consists of thirteen books, in which Augustine outlines his sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. Barry David guides the reader swiftly through these complex texts, explaining the historical context, as well as the various philosophical concepts; and considers its spiritual, ecclesial and theological significance. As with other titles in the Reading Augustine series, this book presents concise introductory reading of Augustine's work from one of the leading scholars in the field.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Barry A. David
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release : 2022-06-16
File : 233 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781350203266


The Confessions Of S Augustine

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Author : Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)
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Release : 1840
File : 460 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044018697656


The Confessions Of S Augustine

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Author : Aurelius Augustinus
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Release : 1840
File : 456 Pages
ISBN-13 : BSB:BSB10742502


The Confessions Of S Augustine

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Genre : Christian life
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
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Release : 1853
File : 416 Pages
ISBN-13 : UIUC:30112037991517


Language In The Confessions Of Augustine

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Philip Burton explores Augustine's treatment of language in his Confessions - a major work of Western philosophy and literature, with continuing intellectual importance. One of Augustine's key concerns is the story of his own encounters with language: from his acquisition of language as a child, through his career as schoolboy orator then star student at Carthage, to professor of rhetoric at Carthage and Rome. Having worked his way up to the eminence of Court Orator to the Roman Emperor at Milan, Augustine rediscovered the catholic Christianity of his childhood - and decided that this was incompatible with his rhetorical profession. Over the next ten years, he gradually reinvents himself as a different sort of language professional: a Christian intellectual, commentating on Scripture and preaching to his flock.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Philip Burton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release : 2007-08-16
File : 224 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780191532825


The Confessions Of Saint Augustine

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In The Confessions, Saint Augustine addressed himself eloquently and passionately to the enduring spiritual questions that have stirred the minds and hearts of thoughtful men since time began. Written A.D. 397, The Confessions are a history of the young Augustine's fierce struggle to overcome his profligate ways and achieve a life of spiritual grace. The first ten books of the work relate the story of Augustine's childhood in Numidia; his licentious and riotous youth and early manhood in Carthage, Rome, and Milan; his continuous struggle with evil; his attempts to find an anchor for his faith among the Manicheans and the Neoplatonists; the untiring efforts of his mother, Saint Monnica, to save him from self-destruction; and his ultimate conversion to the Christian faith at the age of thirty-two. The last three books of The Confessions, unrelated to the preceding account of Saint Augustine's early life, are an allegorical explanation of the Mosaic account of Creation. Throughout the work, the narrative, addressed to God, is intersperse with prayers, meditations, and instructions, many of which today are to be found in the liturgies of all sects of the Christian Church. The Confessions constitute perhaps the most moving diary ever recorded of a soul's journey to grace. Appearing midway in Saint Augustine's prodigious body of theological writings, they stand among the most persuasive works of the sinner-turned-priest who was to exercise a greater influence on Christian thought than any of the other Church fathers.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Saint Augustine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release : 1997-04
File : 260 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780684846453