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Sites about Confessions

by St. Augustine

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

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine/aug-god.html

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

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine/riker

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

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine/felix

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

http://personal2.stthomas.edu/gwschlabach/docs/1992as.htm

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

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine/introconf.html

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

http://personal2.stthomas.edu/gwschlabach/docs/1996naps.htm

"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

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine/sheri

"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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