St. Augustine's Confessions : : The Odyssey of Soul / / Robert J. O'Connell.
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 Confessio...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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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