Is there Theology in this Book? The Theology of Augustine's Confessions, Paul Rigby, Cambridge University Press, 2015 (ISBN 978-1107094925), xv + 340 pp., hb £67 Augustine's Confessions: Philosophy in Autobiography, William E. Mann (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2014 (ISBN 978-0199577552), xi +223 pp., hb £36 The Space of Time: A Sensualist Interpretation of Time in Augustine, Confessions X to XII, David van Dusen, Brill, 2014 (ISBN 978-9004266865), xv + 358 pp., hb €149 Confessions: Books 1–8, Augustine of Hippo, trans. Carolyn J.-B. Hammond, Harvard University Press, 2014 (ISBN 978-0674996854), lxv + 413 pp., hb 26 Confessions: Books 9–13, Augustine of Hippo, trans. Carolyn J.-B. Hammond, Harvard University Press, 2016, (ISBN 978-0674996939), xlii + 446 pp., hb 26 Confessions, Augustine of Hippo, trans. Sarah Ruden, The Modern Library, 2017 (ISBN 978-0812996562), xli + 484 pp., 28
This review essay discusses three recent books on, and two new translations of, Augustine's Confessions. Long appreciated for its stylistic beauty and existential profundity, the Confessions has recently become a resource for creative philosophical reflection in both the analytic and continenta...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2017
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Reviews in religion and theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 633-642 |
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Theological Interpretation
B Book review B Continental Philosophy B Latin translation B Confessions B Augustine of Hippo B analytic philosophy |
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