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
8 - God
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
Whether Augustine is eager to increase knowledge of God in his “Confessions,” to refute heterodox ideas – even ideas that he himself once espoused – about God the creator of matter, space, and time, or whether his aim is to heighten a particular awareness of God, he always tries to convince his readers that God is present in creation and in themselves (cf. Books 1–10), and is close to humankind (cf. Books 11–13). But as a person who is incomprehensible to human beings, God is always as much hidden as he is near.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions' , pp. 123 - 137Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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Further Reading
Bouton-Touboulic, A.-I. L’ordre caché. La notion de l’ordre chez saint Augustin. Collection des Études Augustiniennes. Série Antiquité 174. Paris: Études Augustiniènnes, 2004.Google Scholar
Brachtendorf, J., Augustins “Confessiones.” Darmstadt: Wissenschaffliche Buchgesellschaft, 2005.Google Scholar
Feldmann, E. “Confessiones.” In Augustinus-Lexikon, ed. Mayer, C.. Basel: Schwabe, 1994, vol. 1, 1134–1193.Google Scholar
Fischer, N. and Mayer, C. (eds.), Die Confessiones des Augustinus von Hippo: Einführung und Interpretationen zu den dreizehn Büchern. Forschungen zur europäischen Geistesgeschichte 1. Freiburg: Herder, 1998.Google Scholar
Kotzé, A. Augustine’s Confessions: Communicative Purpose and Audience. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 71. Leiden: Brill, 2004.Google Scholar
Madec, G. “Deus,” in Augustinus-Lexikon, ed. Mayer, C.. Basel: Schwabe, vol. 2, fasc. 1/2 (1996), 314–322; fasc. 3/4 (1999), 322–366.Google Scholar
O’Donnell, J. J. Confessions: Introduction, Text and Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, two vols.Google Scholar
Van Geest, P. The Incomprehensibility of God: Augustine as a Negative Theologian. Late Antique History and Religion 4. Leuven: Peeters, 2010.Google Scholar
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