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An autobiographical work, as well as a theological one. “The Confessions are not to be read merely as a look back at Augustine’s spiritual development; rather the text itself is anessential stage in that development, and a work aware both of what had already passed into history and of what lay ahead. (J.J. O’Donnell)
Critical sites about Confessions
- Augustine’s Idea of God
- An essay on Augustine’s perception of God, with reference to passages from the Confessions.
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: Professor James J. O’Donnell
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- Concupiscence in Augustine and Aquinas
- A comparative analysis.
- Contains: Content Analysis, Bibliography
- Author: Steve Riker
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- The Example of a Woman: Sexual Renunciation and Augustine’s Conversion to Christianity in 386
- An analysis of the role of women in Augustine’s conversion.
- Contains: Content Analysis, Historical Context
- Author: F.B.A. Asiedu
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- Friendship as Adultery: Social Reality and Sexual Metaphor in Augustine’s Doctrine of Original Sin
- An analysis of Augustine’s concept of original sin, and its applications to today’s world.
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: Gerald W. Schlabach
- From: Augustinian Studies 23 (December 1992): 125-147
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- An Introduction to Augustine’s Confessions
- A detailed introduction to both the work and the history of its analysis.
- Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis
- Author: Professor James J. O’Donnell
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- “Love is the Hand of the Soul”: The Grammar of Continence in Augustine’s Doctrine of Christian Love
- “It is time to pursue Augustine’s suggestion that continence is key not just to dealing with errant sexuality, but is key to the righting of all human relationships. Augustine did not always make this explicit, and so a central task of this article will be to discern how a grammar of continence shaped his teachings on love, even when he did not explicate that grammar.”
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: Gerald W. Schlabach
- From: Journal of Early Christian Studies 6:1 (Spring 1998): 59-92
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- Memory and Mind: An Introduction to Augustine’s Epistemology
- “The central point of this paper is to elucidate Augustine’s notion of memory found in Augustine’s Confessions 10. … I focus on several themes Augustine pursues: the imagistic nature of memory, how knowledge is sometimes achieved without images, the relationship of memory to mind, skeptical problems that lead to a Christian epistemology. Along the way I compare, very briefly, Augustine’s views with those of his philosophical ancestors and with a recent philosopher of mind.”
- Contains: Content Analysis, Bibliography
- Author: Sheri Katz
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