Publication

2021 - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Language

English

Word Count

52,000 words, Guess

Page Count

208 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL29538873M
  • ISBN-139781350191426
  • ISBN-101350191426
  • Better World Books9781350191426

Classifications

  • LCCBR65.A9M55 2021

Description

"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"--

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Other Editions

  • On Memory, Marriage, Tears, and MeditationBloomsbury Publishing Plc2021

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