Let in the Light: Learning to Read St. Augustines Confessions White James Boyd
Let in the Light: Learning to Read St. Augustines Confessions White James Boyd St. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in translation, it seemed utterly dull. Augustine's Confessions is…
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Let in the Light: Learning to Read St. Augustines Confessions White James Boyd
St. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in translation, it seemed utterly dull. Augustine's Confessions is heralded as a classic of Western culture.
It was only when he started to read the text in Latin that he began to see the originality and depth of Augustine's work.In Let in the Light, White invites readers to join him in a close and engaged encounter with the Confessions in which they will come to share his experience of the book's power and profundity by reading at least some of it in Augustine's own language. Its ideas struck him as platitudinous and its prose felt drab. He offers an accessible guide to reading the text in Latin, line by line-even for those who have never studied the language.Equally attuned to the resonances of individual words and the deeper currents of Augustine's culture, Let
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