Encounters With God in Augustine's Confessions
Subtitle: Books VII-IX
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: August 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780791461075
Subjects: Christian theology; Philosophy; Religious; History & Surveys - Medieval; Christianity - Theology - Catholic; Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Christian saints; Liber 7-9; Religion - Theology; History; Religion; Spirituality; Hippo (Extinct city); Confessiones; Christian Theology - History; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Biography; History and criticism; Christianity - History - General; Christianity - Literature & the Arts; Algeria; Augustine,; Early church, ca. 30-600
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."--BOOK JACKET.