Tag: Confessions

Major Works

  • Confessions (389)

    - Confessions. Trans. Henry Chadwick. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
    Excerpt: “Among such as these, in that unstable period of my life, I studied the books of eloquence, for it was in eloquence that I was eager to be eminent, though from a reprehensible and vainglorious motive, and a delight in human vanity. In the… More

Commentary

  • Augustine’s Prayerful Ascent: An Essay on the Literary Form of the Confessions

    - McMahon, Robert. Augustine’s Prayerful Ascent: An Essay on the Literary Form of the Confessions. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989.  
  • Images of Conversion in St. Augustine’s Confessions

    - O’Connell, Robert. Images of Conversion in St. Augustine’s Confessions. New York: Fordham University Press, 1996.  
    From the Publisher: “In his preceding work, Soundings in Augustine’s Imagination, Father O’Connell outlined the three basic images Augustine employs to frame his view of the human condition. In the present study, he applies the same… More
  • Augustine and Postmodernism: Confessions and Circumfession

    - Caputo, John & Michael Scanlon, eds. Augustine and Postmodernism: Confessions and Circumfession. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.  
    From the Publisher: “At the heart of the current surge of interest in religion among contemporary Continental philosophers stands Augustine’s Confessions. With Derrida’s Circumfession constantly in the background, this volume takes up the… More
  • Language in the Confessions of Augustine

    - Burton, Phillip. Language in the Confessions of Augustine. New York: Oxford University Press,   2007.  
    From the Publisher: “Philip Burton explores Augustine’s treatment of language in his Confessions – a major work of Western philosophy and literature, with continuing intellectual importance. One of Augustine’s key concerns is the… More