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Author: Paul Rigby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-02-26
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1107094925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study of Augustine's Confessions presents his testimony of conversion as an antidote to modern culture's tendency toward disbelief.
Author: Paul Krause
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2021-07-08
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1725297396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTolle Lege, take up and read! These words from St. Augustine perfectly describe the human condition. Reading is the universal pilgrimage of the soul. In reading we journey to find ourselves and to save ourselves. The ultimate journey is reading the Great Books. In the Great Books we find the struggle of the human soul, its aspirations, desires, and failures. Through reading, we find faces and souls familiar to us even if they lived a thousand years ago. The unread life is not worth living, and in reading we may well discover what life is truly about and prepare ourselves for the pilgrimage of life.
Author: Matthew Levering
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2013-03-15
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1441240454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost theology students realize Augustine is tremendously influential on the Christian tradition as a whole, but they generally lack real knowledge of his writings. This volume introduces Augustine's theology through seven of his most important works. Matthew Levering begins with a discussion of Augustine's life and times and then provides a full survey of the argument of each work with bibliographical references for those who wish to go further. Written in clear, accessible language, this book offers an essential introduction to major works of Augustine that all students of theology--and their professors!--need to know.
Author: Tarmo Toom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-05
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1108491863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the best scholarship on Augustine's Confessions which will facilitate a better understanding of this masterpiece.
Author: John Peter Kenney
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-09-19
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1134442726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAugustine's vision at Ostia is one of the most influential accounts of mystical experience in the Western tradition, and a subject of persistent interest to Christians, philosophers and historians. This book explores Augustine's account of his experience as set down in the Confessions and considers his mysticism in relation to his classical Platonist philosophy. John Peter Kenney argues that while the Christian contemplative mysticism created by Augustine is in many ways founded on Platonic thought, Platonism ultimately fails Augustine in that it cannot retain the truths that it anticipates. The Confessions offer a response to this impasse by generating two critical ideas in medieval and modern religious thought: firstly, the conception of contemplation as a purely epistemic event, in contrast to classical Platonism; secondly, the tenet that salvation is absolutely distinct from enlightenment.
Author: Caryll Houselander
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2023-11-26
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Reed of God is an inspirational classic written by a British Roman Catholic ecclesiastical artist, Caryll Houselander. This book contains a beautiful meditation on Mary, Mother of God and so much more. Reading this book will bring you closer to Our Blessed Mother, and hence, to Christ Himself. Filled with lyrical prose and touching analogies, the author shows how Mary was the "Reed of God" and that we are all vessels waiting to do God's work, and carrying Christ within us.
Author: Jason Byassee
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2006-10-01
Total Pages: 67
ISBN-13: 1621897427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Confessions of St. Augustine is one of the few Christian classics that is still widely read in the secular academy. Yet, oddly enough, it is not often read in the manner Augustine appears to have intended and in which the church read it for centuries: as a model of conversion, devotion, friendship, and the love of God. This book is a companion for any reader of the Confessions--whether in an academic, ecclesial, or devotional context--informed by the latest scholarship yet always directed toward pushing the reader, with Augustine, toward God.
Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher: New City Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 1565481402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"As the psalms are a microcosm of the Old Testament, so the Expositions of the Psalms can be seen as a microcosm of Augustinian thought. In the Book of Psalms are to be found the history of the people of Israel, the theology and spirituality of the Old Covenant, and a treasury of human experience expressed in prayer and poetry. So too does the work of expounding the psalms recapitulate and focus the experiences of Augustine's personal life, his theological reflections and his pastoral concerns as Bishop of Hippo."--Publisher's website.
Author: John D. Caputo
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005-03-10
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0253217318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScanlon, and Mark Vessey.Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion--Merold Westphal, general editor
Author: George Carneal
Publisher: George Carneal
Published: 2016-08-28
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 0692768394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Carneal, author of "From Queer to Christ," grew up in the '70s, raised by a Southern Baptist minister in the ultra-conservative Bible Belt. For years he struggled with his Christian faith and a same-sex attraction. George shares his painful journey through a queer culture fantasyland filled with drag queens, drugs, and dangerous situations, a secular world at odds with homosexuality, in addition to a religious world that is hostile to homosexuals before discovering healing, joy, and peace in Christ. Perhaps sharing his journey through the eyes, and mind, of a confused child dealing with a same-sex attraction will give some insight into the pain and difficulty of navigating these two worlds. George would eventually spend 25 years immersed in the homosexual lifestyle (mostly in the Los Angeles club scene) and shares the pitfalls of that life. His story is not about glamorizing a life he once lived. This is merely his journey and what he learned along the way. Deliverance from that bondage is possible. There is hope in Christ! George is a frequent speaker at churches and conferences, has appeared on numerous television and radio broadcasts, as well as contributing quotes to online articles for LifeSite News, Christian Life Magazine, Tennessee Conservative News, and The Christian Post. For more information, please visit: http://www.georgecarneal.com
