Images of Conversion in St. Augustine's Confessions
Author: Robert J. O'Connell
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780823215980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Narrowing the focus of his Soundings in St. Augustine's Imagination (1994) O'Connell (philosophy, Fordham U.) analyzes three decisive conversions portrayed in the Confessions: the youthful reading of Cicero, that sparked by the platonist books, and the final capitulation in the Milanese garden. He also compares the conversion imagery with that in the Dialogues of Cassicciacum to shed light on the question of two Augustines. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR