Fire on the altar : setting our souls ablaze through Augustine's Confessions / C.C. Pecknold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pecknold, C. C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theological anthropology--Christianity.

Theological anthropology.

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Confessiones.

Augustine.

Catholic Church--Theology.

Catholic Church.

Confessions (Augustine, of Hippo, Saint).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 145 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Setting our souls ablaze through Augustine's Confessions

Place of Publication:

Steubenville, Ohio : Emmaus Road Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

In Fire on the Altar, renowned Augustinian theologian C. C. Pecknold provides readers with a genuinely Catholic understanding of Augustine's Confessions. Setting out to free readers from liberal and individualistic distortions of Augustine's anthropology, Pecknold argues that a religious and liturgical understanding of Augustine's famous work unlocks a more Catholic approach. Strikingly, Fire on the Altar demonstrates that Augustine's anthropology is essentially built around the concept of an "altar" at the center of the soul and culminates in the Eucharist setting fire to our hearts and minds. Examining Augustine's orientation to the altar, Pecknold explores --Our duty to worship God --The "religious" nature of our sins --What we offer to God through our hearts --The kind of worship that the mind can make --The vicarious sacrifices that we can make for the love of neighbor --The intercession of saints --The importance of friends and a social understanding of the person --The place of bishops --The sacraments --The Blessed Virgin Mary --The nature of conversion --And the mission of the Catholic Church. Dr. Pecknold's unique companion to a classic of western civilization shows that the entire Confessions coheres around the Sacrifice of the Mass, revealing that it is only by union with the fire of divine charity on the Church's high altar that we can make a sacrifice acceptable to God. From the book jacket.

Contents:

Part one: To stir a restless heart. The restless heart

A primal fault

Bad religion

Reason's ascent

Part two: Setting the world ablaze. An acceptable sacrifice

Fire on the altar

The new creation.

ISBN:

9781645854852

164585485X

OCLC:

1536126310

Publisher Number:

90103128509