Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Circumstances of Composition
- Part II Main Themes and Topics
- 4 Aversion and Conversion
- 5 Creation and Recreation
- 6 Sin and Concupiscence
- 7 Grace
- 8 God
- 9 Happiness and Friendship
- 10 Love, Will, and the Intellectual Ascents
- 11 Memory, Eternity, and Time
- 12 Philosophy
- 13 Pride and Humility
- 14 Soul, Self, and Interiority
- Part III Reception and Reading Strategies
- A Bibliographical Note
- Index
- Other Titles in the Series (continued from page ii)
- References
4 - Aversion and Conversion
from Part II - Main Themes and Topics
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Circumstances of Composition
- Part II Main Themes and Topics
- 4 Aversion and Conversion
- 5 Creation and Recreation
- 6 Sin and Concupiscence
- 7 Grace
- 8 God
- 9 Happiness and Friendship
- 10 Love, Will, and the Intellectual Ascents
- 11 Memory, Eternity, and Time
- 12 Philosophy
- 13 Pride and Humility
- 14 Soul, Self, and Interiority
- Part III Reception and Reading Strategies
- A Bibliographical Note
- Index
- Other Titles in the Series (continued from page ii)
- References
Summary
Augustine experienced an aversio a Deo and then a conversio ad Deum. He highlights the foundational importance of conversion, which comprised both the gift of God’s grace and the responsibility of a human being. The pair aversio a Deo/conversio ad Deum constitutes a continuous dialectical process until the conversio ad Deum of human beings will find its fulfillment. To explicate this idea, Augustine often uses images, such as, the homeland and the way, the two cities, the morning and the evening.
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Further Reading
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Madec, G. La patrie et la voie: le Christ dans la vie et la pensée de saint Augustin. Paris, Desclée, 1989.Google Scholar
Mandouze, A. Saint Augustin: L’aventure de la raison et de la grâce. Paris, Études Augustiniennes, 1968.Google Scholar
Masai, F. “Les conversions de S. Augustin et les débuts du spiritualisme en Occident,” Revue du Moyen Âge latin 67 (1961), 1–40.Google Scholar
Oroz-Reta, J. “Conversion.” In Saint Augustin, la Méditerranée et l’Europe: IVe–XXIe siècle, ed. Fitzgerald, A.. Paris: Cerf, 2005, 377–382.Google Scholar
Vannier, M.-A. Creatio, conversio, formatio chez S. Augustin. Paradosis 31. Fribourg: Éditions universitaires, 1991 (rev. ed. 1997).Google Scholar
Vannier, M.-A. Les Confessions de Saint Augustin. Collection Classiques du Christianisme. Paris: Cerf, 2007.Google Scholar
Vannier, M.-A. Saint Augustin ou la conversion en acte. Sagesses éternelles. Paris: Entrelacs, 2011.Google Scholar
Zum Brunn, E. Le dilemme de l’être et du néant chez Saint Augustin. Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1969.Google Scholar
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