TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Connell,Robert J.
TI  - St. Augustine's Confessions: The Odyssey of Soul 
SN  - 9780823212651
U1  - 270.2092 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Religious
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823296675
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