Routledge Guidebook to Augustine's Confessions Conybeare Catherine Bryn Mawr College US
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most significant works of Western culture. Cast as a long, impassioned conversation with God, it is intertwined with passages of life-narrative and with key…
Specifikacia Routledge Guidebook to Augustine's Confessions Conybeare Catherine Bryn Mawr College US
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most significant works of Western culture. Cast as a long, impassioned conversation with God, it is intertwined with passages of life-narrative and with key theological and philosophical insights. It is enduringly popular, and justly so.The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine's Confessions is an engaging introduction to this spiritually creative and intellectually original work. This guidebook is organized by themes:the importance of languagecreation and the sensible worldmemory, time and the selfthe afterlife of the Confessions.Written for readers approaching the Confessions for the first time, this guidebook addresses the literary, philosophical, historical and theological complexities of the work in a clear and accessible way.