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St. Augustine's Confessions : The Odyssey of Soul / Robert J. O'Connell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1989Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823212651
  • 9780823296675
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 270.2092
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Preface to the second edition -- Forms of Citation -- Introduction -- 1. Soul's Odyssey: Fall and Return -- 2. The Proëmium (Book I, 1-6) -- 3. A Meditation on Infancy (Book I, 7-31) -- 4. The Prodigal's Wandering (Book II) -- 5. First Conversion: Cicero, the Manichees (Book III) -- 6. To Become a "Little One" Again (Books IV and V, 1-2) -- 7. Faustus, Ambrose, and the "One Teacher" (Book V) -- 8. The Medicine of Faith and Suffering (Book VI) -- 9. Paroxysm and Advancing Cure (Book VII, 1-12) -- 10. The Decisive Admonition: Libri Platonicorum (Book VII, 13-27) -- 11. A Central Difficulty: Emanation and Omnipresence -- 12. The Pearl is Purchased (Book VIII) -- 13. Contemplation and the Soul's "First-Fruits" (Book IX) -- 14. Noverim Te, Noverim Me(Book X) -- 15. Eternity and the Fall into Time (Book XI) -- 16. The Soul's Eternal Home (Book XII) -- 17. The Return of Image to Archetype (Book XIII) -- 18. Conclusion -- Index
Summary: When this book was originally published in 1969, it added fuel to a controversy (sparked by the author in a previous work) that continues unabated to the present day.Now, available for the first time in a paperback edition, it offers a new generation of readers a detailed exposition of the Confessions, showing how the Plotinian view of man as a fallen soul is present in this work and, furthermore, that it is the key to its interpretation.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Preface to the second edition -- Forms of Citation -- Introduction -- 1. Soul's Odyssey: Fall and Return -- 2. The Proëmium (Book I, 1-6) -- 3. A Meditation on Infancy (Book I, 7-31) -- 4. The Prodigal's Wandering (Book II) -- 5. First Conversion: Cicero, the Manichees (Book III) -- 6. To Become a "Little One" Again (Books IV and V, 1-2) -- 7. Faustus, Ambrose, and the "One Teacher" (Book V) -- 8. The Medicine of Faith and Suffering (Book VI) -- 9. Paroxysm and Advancing Cure (Book VII, 1-12) -- 10. The Decisive Admonition: Libri Platonicorum (Book VII, 13-27) -- 11. A Central Difficulty: Emanation and Omnipresence -- 12. The Pearl is Purchased (Book VIII) -- 13. Contemplation and the Soul's "First-Fruits" (Book IX) -- 14. Noverim Te, Noverim Me(Book X) -- 15. Eternity and the Fall into Time (Book XI) -- 16. The Soul's Eternal Home (Book XII) -- 17. The Return of Image to Archetype (Book XIII) -- 18. Conclusion -- Index

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When this book was originally published in 1969, it added fuel to a controversy (sparked by the author in a previous work) that continues unabated to the present day.Now, available for the first time in a paperback edition, it offers a new generation of readers a detailed exposition of the Confessions, showing how the Plotinian view of man as a fallen soul is present in this work and, furthermore, that it is the key to its interpretation.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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