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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/869897872 Title: Contemplation and classical Christianity : a study in Augustine Author: John Peter Kenney Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. ©2013 ISBN/ISSN: 9780199563708 0199563705 9780198758822 0198758820 OCLC:869897872

  
  

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Contemplation and classical Christianity : a study in Augustine

Author:	John Peter Kenney
Publisher:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013. ©2013
Series:	Oxford early Christian studies.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : First editionView all editions and formats
Summary:	"After resolving to become a Catholic Christian, Augustine spent a decade trying to clarify his understanding of 'contemplation, ' the interior presence of God to the soul. That long struggle yielded his classic account in the Confessions. This study explores Augustine's developing understanding of contemplation, beginning with his earliest accounts written before his baptism and ending with the Confessions. Chapter One examines the pagan monotheism of the Roman Platonists and the role of contemplation in their theology. Augustine's pre-baptismal writing are then considered in Chapter Two, tracking his fundamental break from pagan Platonism. Chapter Three then turns to Augustine's developing understanding of contemplation in these pre-baptismal texts. Chapter Four concentrates on Augustine's thought during the decade after his baptism in 387, a period that encompasses his monastic life in Thagaste, and his years first as a presbyter and then as a bishop in Hippo Regius. This chapter follows the arc of Austine's thought through these years of transition and leads into the Confessions, giving a vantage point to survey its theology of contemplation. Chapter Five concentrates on the Confessions and sets its most famous account of contemplation, the vision at Ostia from Book IX, into a larger polemical context. Augustine's defence of his transcendental reading of scripture in Confessions XII in analyzed and then used to illuminate the Ostian ascent narrative. The book concludes with observations on the importance of Augustine's theology of contemplation to the emergence of Christian monotheism in late antiquity."--Jacket.  Read more...
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Subjects	Augustine, -- of Hippo, Saint, -- 354-430. Augustinus, Aurelius, -- 354-430. Augustine, -- of Hippo, Saint, -- 354-430 View all subjects
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