Augustine's 'Confessions' : a critical guide / edited by Thomas Williams, Georgetown University.

Other author Williams, Thomas, 1967- editor.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.
Copyright Date©2026
Descriptionxv, 241 pages ; 24 cm.
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Uniform titleAugustine's Confessions (Cambridge University Press) http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/da0765cb-19b0-1726-c749-96ed2073cd18.
SeriesCambridge critical guides
Cambridge critical guides.
Contents Theological predecessors to the Confessions of Augustine / Mark Edwards -- Trinitarian metaphysics in the Confessions : Marius Victorinus and the Neoplatonic triad "being, life, mind" / Sarah Byers -- Augustine's therapy of emotions : the Confessions as a Christian guide to care for one's soul / Charlotte Köckert -- Augustine's Confessions and earlier exegesis / Bronwen Neil -- Reading Augustine reading Scripture in the Confessions / Michael Cameron -- Augustine on the tasks of reading Scripture / Blake D. Dutton -- The sacramental structure and imagination of Augustine's Confessions / Elizabeth Klein -- How great a debtor : grace and Providence in Augustine's Confessions / Thomas Williams -- Augustine's second-personal account of the virtues / Andrew Pinsent -- The nobility of sight in the Confessions / Gerald Boersma -- First words: Confessions 1.8.13 and the inner life of language / James Wetzel -- Augustine on time, eternity, and temporal experience / Tamer Nawar.
Abstract " ... This Critical Guide engages with Augustine's creative appropriation of the work of his predecessors in theology generally, in metaphysics, and in philosophy as therapy for the soul, and reframes a much discussed, but still poorly understood, passage from the Confessions with respect to recent philosophy. The volume represents the best of contemporary scholarship on Augustine's Confessions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and builds on existing scholarship to develop new insights, explore underappreciated themes, and situate Augustine in the thought of his own day as well as ours." -- Publisher, page four of cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 222-238) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Augustine's 'Confessions' Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025 9781009036597
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