The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Rereading the Confessions. By John Peter Kenney. Pp. xv + 160. New York and London: Routledge (a Taylor & Francis Group imprint), 2005. isbn 0 415 28833 9. Paper £16.99
This is a very important book. It is a contribution to the task begun by McGinn, Van Fleteren, and others of recovering a theological reading of the Confessions which in the twentieth century has been hijacked in favour of attempts to recover the personal mysticism of Augustine in one form or anothe...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 736-741 |
| Review of: | The mysticism of Saint Augustine (New York, NY [u.a.] : Routledge, 2007) (Lane, Margaret)
The mysticism of Saint Augustine (New York, NY : Routledge, 2005) (Lane, Margaret) |
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| Summary: | This is a very important book. It is a contribution to the task begun by McGinn, Van Fleteren, and others of recovering a theological reading of the Confessions which in the twentieth century has been hijacked in favour of attempts to recover the personal mysticism of Augustine in one form or another., It should be said that despite the title it is not a rereading of all thirteen books of the Confessions nor indeed even of the first nine, which are often, incorrectly, regarded as the autobiographical books in contradistinction to the last four. It is instead a rereading of the so-called ascent narratives, two in book 7 and one, the famous vision at Ostia, in book 9. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flj134 |