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The journey toward God in Augustine's Confessions : books I-VI / Carl G. Vaught.

By: Vaught, Carl G, 1939-Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003Description: 1 online resource (xi, 193 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 0791457915; 0791457923; 0791486532; 1417508612; 9780791457917; 9780791457924; 9780791486535; 9781417508617Subject(s): Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 | Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Confessiones. Liber 1-6 | Augustine, Saint | Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo | Confessiones (Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo) | 30 - 600 | Christian saints -- Algeria -- Hippo (Extinct city) -- Biography -- History and criticism | Spirituality -- Christianity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 | Christian saints | RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History | RELIGION -- Christianity -- History | Spirituality -- Christianity -- Early church | Algeria -- Hippo (Extinct city)Genre/Form: Electronic books. | Biography | Criticism, interpretation, etc. | Electronic books. | HistoryAdditional physical formats: Print version:: Journey toward God in Augustine's Confessions.DDC classification: 270.2/092 LOC classification: BR65.A62 | V38 2003ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost

Contents:

Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence: From Will to Willfulness (Books I-II) -- Philosophical Turn: Seven Stages of Experiential and Reflective Development (Books III-IV) -- Manichaeism, Skepticism, and Christianity (Books V-VI).

Summary: "This detailed discussion of Augustine's journey toward God, as it is described in the first six books of the Confessions, begins with infancy, moves through childhood and adolescence, and culminates in youthful maturity. In the first stage, Augustine deals with the problems of original innocence and sin: in the second, he addresses a pear-stealing episode that recapitulates the theft of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden and confronts the problem of sexuality with which he wrestles until his conversion: and in the third, he turns toward philosophy, only to be captivated successively by dualism skepticism, and Catholicism. Augustine's journey exhibits temporal, spatial, and eternal dimensions and combines his head and his heart in equal proportions. Vaught shows that the Confessions should be interpreted as an attempt to address the person as a whole rather than through our intellectual or volitional dimensions exclusively. The passion with which Augustine describes the end of his journey is reflected best in a sentence found in the opening chapter of the text - "You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you."" "Interpreting the statement, Carl G. Vaught presents a more emphatically Christian Augustine than is usually found in contemporary scholarship. Refusing to view Augustine in an exclusively Neoplatonic framework, Vaught holds that Augustine baptizes Plotinus just as successfully as Aquinas baptizes Aristotle. It cannot be denied that Ancient philosophy influences Augustine decisively. Nevertheless, he holds the experiential and the theoretical dimensions of his journey toward God together as a distinctive expression of the Christian tradition." --Book Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-185) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence: From Will to Willfulness (Books I-II) -- 2. Philosophical Turn: Seven Stages of Experiential and Reflective Development (Books III-IV) -- 3. Manichaeism, Skepticism, and Christianity (Books V-VI).

"This detailed discussion of Augustine's journey toward God, as it is described in the first six books of the Confessions, begins with infancy, moves through childhood and adolescence, and culminates in youthful maturity. In the first stage, Augustine deals with the problems of original innocence and sin: in the second, he addresses a pear-stealing episode that recapitulates the theft of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden and confronts the problem of sexuality with which he wrestles until his conversion: and in the third, he turns toward philosophy, only to be captivated successively by dualism skepticism, and Catholicism. Augustine's journey exhibits temporal, spatial, and eternal dimensions and combines his head and his heart in equal proportions. Vaught shows that the Confessions should be interpreted as an attempt to address the person as a whole rather than through our intellectual or volitional dimensions exclusively. The passion with which Augustine describes the end of his journey is reflected best in a sentence found in the opening chapter of the text - "You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you."" "Interpreting the statement, Carl G. Vaught presents a more emphatically Christian Augustine than is usually found in contemporary scholarship. Refusing to view Augustine in an exclusively Neoplatonic framework, Vaught holds that Augustine baptizes Plotinus just as successfully as Aquinas baptizes Aristotle. It cannot be denied that Ancient philosophy influences Augustine decisively. Nevertheless, he holds the experiential and the theoretical dimensions of his journey toward God together as a distinctive expression of the Christian tradition." --Book Jacket.

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