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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: O'Connell, Robert J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

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.

Table of 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