Let in the Light : : Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions / / James Boyd White.
St. Augustine’s Confessions is heralded as a classic of Western culture. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in translation, it seemed utterly dull. Its ideas struck him as platitudinous and its prose felt drab. It was only when he started to read the text in Latin that he began to see...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I
- 1. The Shape of the Confessions
- 2. The First Three Sentences (Book 1)
- 3. Movement from One Mode of Thought and Expression 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