A Reader's Companion to Augustine's Confessions

by Paffenroth, Kim; Kennedy, Robert P.

• ISBN13: 9780664226190
• ISBN10: 0664226191
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

This book is a tool for teaching and studying the great Christian classic, Augustine'sConfessions. It is a unique venture in which thirteen different scholars look at each of the thirteen books in theConfessionsand interpret their chapters in light of that book and in light of the rest of Augustine's work. The result is that the richness and ambiguity of Augustine's work shines through as well as the richness and ambiguity of different readings of theConfessions.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
Kim Paffenroth and Robert R Kennedy
1 Book One: The Presumptuousness of Autobiography and the Paradoxes of Beginning	7	(18)
Charles T. Mathewes
2 Book Two: Augustine's Book of Shadows	25	(10)
John C. Cavadini
3 Book Three: "No Changing Nor Shadow"	35	(18)
Todd Breyfogle
4 Book Four: The Trappings of Woe and Confession of Grief	53	(18)
James Wetzel
5 Book Five: The Disclosure of Hidden Providence	71	(18)
Frederick J Crosson
6 Book Six: Major Characters and Memorable Incidents	89	(18)
Eric Plumer
7 Book Seven: Inner Vision as the Goal of Augustine's Life	107	(20)
Phillip Cary
8 Book Eight: Science and the Fictional Conversion Scene	127	(10)
Leo C. Ferrari
9 Book Nine: The Emotional Heart of the Confessions	137	(18)
Kim Paffenroth
10 Book Ten: The Self Seeking the God Who Creates and Heals	155	(12)
Pamela Bright
11 Book Eleven: The Confessions as Eschatological Narrative	167	(18)
Robert P. Kennedy
12 Book Twelve: Exegesis and Confessio	185	(22)
Thomas F. Martin, 0. S.A.
13 Book Thirteen: The Creation of the Church as the Paradigm for the Confessions	207	(18)
Robert McMahon
Notes	225	(36)
For Further Reading	261	(2)
Contributors	263	(4)
Scripture Index	267	(2)
Subject Index	269