White Let in the Light

Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55579-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

James Boyd White invites readers to join him in a close and engaged encounter with St. Augustine’s Confessions. He offers an accessible guide to reading the text in Latin—even for those who have never studied the language—guiding readers to experience the immediacy, urgency, and vitality of Augustine’s writing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, James Boyd

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
An Outline of Augustine’s Life up to the Composition of the Confessions
Part I
1. The Shape of the Confessions
2. The First Three Sentences (Book 1)
3. The Movement from One Mode of Thought to Another (Book 1)
4. Remembering Early Childhood and Language Breaking Down (Book 1)
Part II
5. Adolescence, Sex, and the Stolen Pears (Book 2)
6. Love, Philosophy, and Monnica’s Dream (Book 3)
7. Friendship and Struggles with Manicheism (book 4)
8. From the Manichees to Ambrose (Book 5)
9. Certainty and Uncertainty (Book 6)
10. Imagining God and the Origin of Evil (Book 7)
11. The Conversion in the Garden (Book 8)
12. What It Meant (Book 9)
Part III
13. Memory, Sin, and Redemption (Book 10)
14. Time (Book 11)
15. Reading Genesis: The Creation Story (Book 12)
16. “Knock and It Shall Be Opened unto You” (Book 13)
Coda
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

James Boyd White is the L. Hart Wright Professor of Law Emeritus and professor of English emeritus at the University of Michigan and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His many books include The Legal Imagination: Studies in the Nature of Legal Thought and Expression (1973) and, most recently, Keep Law Alive (2019). He is considered the founder of the law and literature movement.