Augustine’s Intellectual Conversion: The Journey from Platonism to Christianity. By Brian Dobell
The thesis put forward in this book is that Confessions 7.9.13–21.27 is best interpreted as a historical account of Augustine’s intellectual development during the period 386–95 rather than, as usually assumed, a historical account of events that occurred during a few months in 386 or, as O’Connell...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 328-329 |
| Review of: | Augustine's intellectual conversion (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009) (Lane, Margaret)
Augustine's intellectual conversion (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2009) (Lane, Margaret) |
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| Summary: | The thesis put forward in this book is that Confessions 7.9.13–21.27 is best interpreted as a historical account of Augustine’s intellectual development during the period 386–95 rather than, as usually assumed, a historical account of events that occurred during a few months in 386 or, as O’Connell believed, as a Weltanschauung. This thesis entails revisiting some old and well-worn scholarly arguments—the historicity of Augustine’s conversion in Confessions 7, the nature of that conversion, and the number of ascents described., The book is divided into two parts corresponding with the early Augustine’s two distinct ways to God—the ways of authority and reason. |
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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/fls013 |