Augustine: Confessions Books I–IV -  Augustine

Augustine: Confessions Books I–IV

(Autor)

Gillian Clark (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
212 Seiten
1995
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-49763-3 (ISBN)
34,90 inkl. MwSt
This volume presents the Latin text of one of the great classics of Christian literature, concerned with one human life as an example of what it is to be human and in search of God. The commentary, which can be used by those new to Augustine and his world, concentrates on his brilliant Latin and on his theology and philosophy.
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century AD, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting a life. Books I–IV are concerned with infancy and learning to talk, school days, sexual desire and adolescent rebellion, intense friendships and intellectual exploration. Augustine evolves and analyses his past with all the resources of the reading which shaped his mind: Virgil and Cicero, Neoplatonism and the Bible. This edition, which aims to be usable by students who are new to Augustine, alerts readers to the verbal echoes and allusions of Augustine's brilliant and varied Latin, and explains his theological and philosophical questioning of what God is and what it is to be human.

Introduction: 1. The Confessions in Augustine's life; 2. Genre and style; 3. Philosophy and theology; 4. Text and commentary; Avgvstini Confessionvm LibriI I–IV; Commentary; Bibliography; Indexes.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 2.11.1995
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics - Imperial Library
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 122 x 183 mm
Gewicht 220 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10 0-521-49763-9 / 0521497639
ISBN-13 978-0-521-49763-3 / 9780521497633
Zustand Neuware
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