Let in the Light - James Boyd White

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Résumé :
James Boyd White invites readers to join him in a close and engaged encounter with St. Augustine?s Confessions. He offers an accessible guide to reading the text in Latin?even for those who have never studied the language?guiding readers to experience the immediacy, urgency, and vitality of Augustine?s writing.

Biographie:
James Boyd White

Sommaire:
Preface
Acknowledgments
An Outline of Augustine?s Life up to the Composition of the Confessions
Part I
1. The Shape of the Confessions
2. The First Three Sentences (Book 1)
3. The Movement from One Mode of Thought to Another (Book 1)
4. Remembering Early Childhood and Language Breaking Down (Book 1)
Part II
5. Adolescence, Sex, and the Stolen Pears (Book 2)
6. Love, Philosophy, and Monnic?s Dream (Book 3)
7. Friendship and Struggles with Manicheism (book 4)
8. From the Manichees to Ambrose (Book 5)
9. Certainty and Uncertainty (Book 6)
10. Imagining God and the Origin of Evil (Book 7)
11. The Conversion in the Garden (Book 8)
12. What It Meant (Book 9)
Part III
13. Memory, Sin, and Redemption (Book 10)
14. Time (Book 11)
15. Reading Genesis: The Creation Story (Book 12)
16. ?Knock and It Shall Be Opened unto You? (Book 13)
Coda
Notes
Index