Margaret R. Miles

On Memory, Marriage, Tears and Meditation (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350191457
• Artikelnr.: 60682927

Autorenporträt

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)

Inhaltsangabe

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