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The Cambridge companion to Augustine's Confessions / edited by Tarmo Toom, Georgetown University.

Contributor(s): Toom, Tarmo, 1961- [editor.]Series: Cambridge companions to religionPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: xiv, 340 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781108491860; 1108491863; 9781108449816; 1108449816Subject(s): Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. ConfessionesDDC classification: 270.2092 LOC classification: BR65 .A62 | C363 2020
Contents:
Introduction: What is the Cambridge Companion to Augustine's Confessions? / Tarmo Toom -- Part I. Circumstances of composition: Title, time, and circumstances of composition: the genesis of the Confessions / Carolyn Hammond -- Structure and genre of the Confessions / Annemaré Kotzé -- Anticipated readers / Jason David Beduhn -- Part II. Main themes and topics: Aversion and conversion / Marie-Anne Vannier -- Creation and recreation / Matthew Drever -- Sin and concupiscence / Johannes van Oort -- Grace / Volker Henning Drecoll -- God / Paul van Geest -- Happiness and friendship / Anne-Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic -- Love, will, and the intellectual ascents / Sarah Catherine Byers -- Memory, eternity, and time / Lenka Karfíková -- Philosophy / Giovanni Catapano -- Pride and humility / Notker Baumann -- Soul, self, and interiority / Phillip Cary -- Part III. Reception and reading strategies: Manuscript transmission, critical editions, and English translations / Gert Partoens -- Reception in the Middle Ages / Eric Leland Saak -- Reception in the period of Reformations: the Confessions, 1500-1650 / Katrin Ettenhuber -- Reception during the Enlightenment: a for anti-Augustine / Patrick Riley -- Reading [in] Augustine's Confessions / Mark Vessey.
Summary: "This Cambridge Companion serves as an authoritative guide to Augustine's Confessions-a literary classic and one of the most important theological/philosophical works of Late Antiquity. Bringing together new essays by leading scholars, the volume first examines the composition of the text, including its structure, genre, and intended audience. Subsequent essays explore a range of themes and concepts, such as God, creation, sin, grace, happiness, and interiority, among others. The final section of the Companion deals with its historical relevance. It provides sample essays on the reception history of the Confessions. These essays demonstrate how each generation reads the Confessions in light of current questions and circumstances, and how the text continues to remain relevant and raise new questions"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: What is the Cambridge Companion to Augustine's Confessions? / Tarmo Toom -- Part I. Circumstances of composition: Title, time, and circumstances of composition: the genesis of the Confessions / Carolyn Hammond -- Structure and genre of the Confessions / Annemaré Kotzé -- Anticipated readers / Jason David Beduhn -- Part II. Main themes and topics: Aversion and conversion / Marie-Anne Vannier -- Creation and recreation / Matthew Drever -- Sin and concupiscence / Johannes van Oort -- Grace / Volker Henning Drecoll -- God / Paul van Geest -- Happiness and friendship / Anne-Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic -- Love, will, and the intellectual ascents / Sarah Catherine Byers -- Memory, eternity, and time / Lenka Karfíková -- Philosophy / Giovanni Catapano -- Pride and humility / Notker Baumann -- Soul, self, and interiority / Phillip Cary -- Part III. Reception and reading strategies: Manuscript transmission, critical editions, and English translations / Gert Partoens -- Reception in the Middle Ages / Eric Leland Saak -- Reception in the period of Reformations: the Confessions, 1500-1650 / Katrin Ettenhuber -- Reception during the Enlightenment: a for anti-Augustine / Patrick Riley -- Reading [in] Augustine's Confessions / Mark Vessey.

"This Cambridge Companion serves as an authoritative guide to Augustine's Confessions-a literary classic and one of the most important theological/philosophical works of Late Antiquity. Bringing together new essays by leading scholars, the volume first examines the composition of the text, including its structure, genre, and intended audience. Subsequent essays explore a range of themes and concepts, such as God, creation, sin, grace, happiness, and interiority, among others. The final section of the Companion deals with its historical relevance. It provides sample essays on the reception history of the Confessions. These essays demonstrate how each generation reads the Confessions in light of current questions and circumstances, and how the text continues to remain relevant and raise new questions"-- Provided by publisher.