On Memory, Marriage, Tears, and Meditation
Seiten
2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-19143-3 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-19143-3 (ISBN)
On Memory, Marriage, Tears, and Meditation offers readers the tools for reading Augustine’s journey to human emotions through his writings on feeling, marriage, conversion, and meditation.
Augustine understood that feeling, not rationality, gathers and reveals the deep longing of the whole person. Throughout his ecclesiastical career, he discussed marriage in sermons, letters, and treatises from the perspective of his own experience. Miles examines Augustine’s prototypes for conversion – reading and conversion; sacrifice and conversion; and the importance of friends in what might be considered a subjective and private process. Meditation was central to Augustine’s Christian life and Miles argues that his practice of meditation suggests that penitence included a rich range of feeling leading to gratitude, peace, wonder, and love.
Augustine understood that feeling, not rationality, gathers and reveals the deep longing of the whole person. Throughout his ecclesiastical career, he discussed marriage in sermons, letters, and treatises from the perspective of his own experience. Miles examines Augustine’s prototypes for conversion – reading and conversion; sacrifice and conversion; and the importance of friends in what might be considered a subjective and private process. Meditation was central to Augustine’s Christian life and Miles argues that his practice of meditation suggests that penitence included a rich range of feeling leading to gratitude, peace, wonder, and love.
Margaret R. Miles is Professor Emerita of Historical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA. She is the author of Augustine and the Fundamentalist’s Daughter (2014), The Long Goodbye: Dementia Diaries (2017), and Recollections and Reconsiderations (2018).
Preface: Reading for Life
Acknowledgments
Texts and Translations
List of Abbreviations
1. Augustine: Theologian of Feeling
2. Augustine’s Coniugium
3. Augustine’s Conversions
4. Bodies, Pleasures, and the Young Augustine
5. Augustine’s Meditation
6. Augustine’s Tears
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.02.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Reading Augustine |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 299 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-19143-4 / 1350191434 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-19143-3 / 9781350191433 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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