St. Augustine's Confessions: The Odyssey of Soul

Robert J. O'Connell

Published by Fordham University Press 1989

St. Augustine's Confessions

The Odyssey of Soul

Robert J. O'Connell

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823296675

Overview
Contents

About this book

When this book was originally published in 1969, it added fuel to a controversy (sparked by the author in a previous work) that continues unabated to the present day.Now, available for the first time in a paperback edition, it offers a new generation of readers a detailed exposition of the Confessions, showing how the Plotinian view of man as a fallen soul is present in this work and, furthermore, that it is the key to its interpretation.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface to the second edition Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Forms of Citation Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Soul's Odyssey: Fall and Return Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. The Proëmium (Book I, 1-6) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3. A Meditation on Infancy (Book I, 7-31) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
4. The Prodigal's Wandering (Book II) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
5. First Conversion: Cicero, the Manichees (Book III) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
6. To Become a "Little One" Again (Books IV and V, 1-2) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
7. Faustus, Ambrose, and the "One Teacher" (Book V) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
8. The Medicine of Faith and Suffering (Book VI) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
9. Paroxysm and Advancing Cure (Book VII, 1-12) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
10. The Decisive Admonition: Libri Platonicorum (Book VII, 13-27) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
11. A Central Difficulty: Emanation and Omnipresence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
12. The Pearl is Purchased (Book VIII) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
13. Contemplation and the Soul's "First-Fruits" (Book IX) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
14. Noverim Te, Noverim Me(Book X) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
15. Eternity and the Fall into Time (Book XI) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
16. The Soul's Eternal Home (Book XII) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
17. The Return of Image to Archetype (Book XIII) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
18. Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 200

eBook

Published: December 6, 2021
ISBN: 9780823296675