| Encounters with God in Augustine's Confessions: Books VII-IX Contributor(s): Vaught, Carl G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791461084 ISBN-13: 9780791461082 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $32.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2007 Annotation: This reappraisal of the middle section of Augustines Confessions covers the period of Augustines conversion to Christianity. The author argues against the prevailing Neoplatonic interpretation of Augustine. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - History - Philosophy | Religious - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 270.209 |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6.46" W x 8.98" (0.58 lbs) 187 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book continues Carl G. Vaught's thoroughgoing reinterpretation of Augustine's Confessions--one that rejects the view that Augustine is simply a Neoplatonist and argues that he is also a definitively Christian thinker. As a companion volume to the earlier Journey toward God in Augustine's Confessions: Books I-VI, it can be read in sequence with or independently of it. This work covers the middle portion of the Confessions, Books VII-IX. Opening in Augustine's youthful maturity, Books VII-IX focus on the three pivotal experiences that transform his life: the Neoplatonic vision that causes him to abandon materialism; his conversion to Christianity that leads him beyond Neoplatonism to a Christian attitude toward the world and his place in it; and the mystical experience he shares with his mother a few days before her death, which points to the importance of the Christian community. Vaught argues that time, space, and eternity intersect to provide a framework in which these three experiences occur and which give Augustine a three-fold access to God. |