Augustine''s Confessions'' - A Critical Guide

Represents the best of contemporary scholarship on Augustine's Confessions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives: philosophy, historical and systematic theology, biblical studies, and the history of late antiquity. Readers will gain an overview of current work on the Confessions and new insights into this classic text.

List of contents

Introduction Thomas Williams; 1. Theological predecessors to the confessions of Augustine Mark Edwards; 2. Trinitarian metaphysics in the Confessions: Marius Victorinus and the Neoplatonic triad 'being, life, mind' Sarah Byers; 3. Augustine's therapy of emotions: the Confessions as a Christian guide to care for one's soul Charlotte Köckert; 4. Augustine's Confessions and earlier exegesis Bronwen Neil; 5. Reading Augustine reading Scripture in the Confessions Michael Cameron; 6. Augustine on the tasks of reading Scripture Blake D. Dutton; 7. The sacramental structure and imagination of Augustine's Confessions Elizabeth Klein; 8. How great a debtor: grace and providence in Augustine's Confessions Thomas Williams; 9. Augustine's second-personal account of the virtues Andrew Pinsent; 10. The nobility of sight in the Confessions Gerald Boersma; 11. First words: Confessions 1.8.13 and the inner life of language James Wetzel; 12. Augustine on time, eternity, and temporal experience Tamer Nawar; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas (Georgetown University Williams
• Assisted by: Thomas Williams (Editor), Williams Thomas (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781316511107
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51110-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Cambridge Critical Guides
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, BIBLES / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, HISTORY / Social History, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Theology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Christianity: sacred texts and revered writings, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ancient, classical and medieval texts