Critical Confessions Now
Title | Critical Confessions Now PDF eBook |
Author | Abdulhamit Arvas |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Confession |
ISBN | 3031185080 |
This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Critical Confessions Now. These chapters on confessions exhibit great diversity and take up different disciplinary approaches by scholars who stand at various stages of their careers. They address not only different time periods but also various linguistic and cultural contexts. Contributors deploy a wide array of methods, critical approaches, and narrative voices, and contributors assumed the confessional voice with a whole host of affective responses — from enthusiasm to cautious hesitation to outright discomfort. Previously published in postmedieval Volume 11, issue 2-3, August 2020.
The Confession of Faith
Title | The Confession of Faith PDF eBook |
Author | John R. Bower |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2013-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781601782434 |
Augustine's Confessions
Title | Augustine's Confessions PDF eBook |
Author | Annemaré Kotzé |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004139265 |
This reading of the "Confessions" focuses on its aim to convert its readers (it displays some characteristics of the protreptic genre) and on a specific segment of its potential audience, Augustine's erstwhile co-religionists, the Manichaeans.
Confessions
Title | Confessions PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Docherty |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2012-05-24 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1849666784 |
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book explores what is at stake in our confessional culture. Thomas Docherty examines confessional writings from Augustine to Montaigne and from Sylvia Plath to Derrida, arguing that through all this work runs a philosophical substratum - the conditions under which it is possible to assert a confessional mode - that needs exploration and explication. Docherty outlines a philosophy of confession that has pertinence for a contemporary political culture based on the notion of 'transparency'. In a postmodern 'transparent society', the self coincides with its self-representations. Such a position is central to the idea of authenticity and truth-telling in confessional writing: it is the basis of saying, truthfully, 'here I take my stand'. The question is: what other consequences might there be of an assumption of the primacy of transparency? Two areas are examined in detail: the religious and the judicial. Docherty shows that despite the tendency to regard transparency as a general social and ethical good, our contemporary culture of transparency has engendered a society in which autonomy (or the very authority of the subject that proclaims 'I confess') is grounded in guilt, reparation and victimhood.
Augustine's Confessions
Title | Augustine's Confessions PDF eBook |
Author | William E. Mann |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780742542327 |
Unique in all of literature, the Confessions combines frank and profound psychological insight into Augustine's formative years along with sophisticated and beguiling reflections on some of the most important issues in philosophy and theology. The essays contained in this volume, by some of the most distinguished recent and contemporary thinkers in the field, insightfully explore Augustinian themes not only with an eye to historical accuracy but also to gauge the philosophical acumen of Augustine's reflections.
Augustine: Confessions Books V–IX
Title | Augustine: Confessions Books V–IX PDF eBook |
Author | Augustine |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2019-09-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108752950 |
Books V-IX of the Confessions trace five crucial years in the life of Augustine, from his debut as a teacher of rhetoric in North Africa to his baptism as a Christian and the renunciation of a worldly career in Milan. This commentary will be invaluable for those wishing to read his story in the original Latin. Through careful glosses and notes, Augustine's Latin is made accessible to students of patristics and of classics. His extensive quotations from Scripture are translated and explained in light of the variant Bible texts and the interpretative assumptions through which he came to understand them. The unfolding of his career is set against the background of political, cultural, and religious change in the fourth century, and the art with which he created a form of narrative without precedent in earlier Latin literature is illustrated in close detail.
Male Confessions
Title | Male Confessions PDF eBook |
Author | Björn Krondorfer |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 453 |
Release | 2009-12-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0804773432 |
Male Confessions examines how men open their intimate lives and thoughts to the public through confessional writing. This book examines writings—by St. Augustine, a Jewish ghetto policeman, an imprisoned Nazi perpetrator, and a gay American theologian—that reflect sincere attempts at introspective and retrospective self-investigation, often triggered by some wounding or rupture and followed by a transformative experience. Krondorfer takes seriously the vulnerability exposed in male self-disclosure while offering a critique of the religious and gendered rhetoric employed in such discourse. The religious imagination, he argues, allows men to talk about their intimate, flawed, and sinful selves without having to condemn themselves or to fear self-erasure. Herein lies the greatest promise of these confessions: by baring their souls to judgment, these writers may also transcend their self-imprisonment.