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
- 1 Title, Time, and Circumstances of Composition
- 2 Structure and Genre of the Confessions
- 3 Anticipated Readers
- Part II Main Themes and Topics
- Part III Reception and Reading Strategies
- A Bibliographical Note
- Index
- Other Titles in the Series (continued from page ii)
- References
1 - Title, Time, and Circumstances of Composition
The Genesis of the Confessions
from Part I - Circumstances of Composition
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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
- 1 Title, Time, and Circumstances of Composition
- 2 Structure and Genre of the Confessions
- 3 Anticipated Readers
- Part II Main Themes and Topics
- Part III Reception and Reading Strategies
- A Bibliographical Note
- Index
- Other Titles in the Series (continued from page ii)
- References
Summary
This chapter is a survey of the genesis of the book “Confessions,” including reflections on the title, structure, date, influences, and style; an examination of the conversational structure of the text, including the dialogic form in relation to “Confessions” as a prayer; and an analysis of the terminology of “confession” as both positive (praise) and negative (admission of wrongdoing).
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- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions' , pp. 11 - 27Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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