St. Augustine's Confessions : The Odyssey of Soul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Connell, Robert J.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages)

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : Fordham University Press, 1969.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-8232-9667-9

OCLC:

1309012561