Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Circumstances of Composition
- Part II Main Themes and Topics
- 4 Aversion and Conversion
- 5 Creation and Recreation
- 6 Sin and Concupiscence
- 7 Grace
- 8 God
- 9 Happiness and Friendship
- 10 Love, Will, and the Intellectual Ascents
- 11 Memory, Eternity, and Time
- 12 Philosophy
- 13 Pride and Humility
- 14 Soul, Self, and Interiority
- Part III Reception and Reading Strategies
- A Bibliographical Note
- Index
- Other Titles in the Series (continued from page ii)
- References
5 - Creation and Recreation
from Part II - Main Themes and Topics
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Circumstances of Composition
- Part II Main Themes and Topics
- 4 Aversion and Conversion
- 5 Creation and Recreation
- 6 Sin and Concupiscence
- 7 Grace
- 8 God
- 9 Happiness and Friendship
- 10 Love, Will, and the Intellectual Ascents
- 11 Memory, Eternity, and Time
- 12 Philosophy
- 13 Pride and Humility
- 14 Soul, Self, and Interiority
- Part III Reception and Reading Strategies
- A Bibliographical Note
- Index
- Other Titles in the Series (continued from page ii)
- References
Summary
The theme of creation and recreation is at the heart of “Confessions,” and traces two moments in God’s relation to the world that are distinct and yet inseparable. On one hand, creation and recreation beckon toward their unity within the Trinitarian God: the Father forms creation through the eternal Word (Son) and within the Spirit’s love, and recreates through the eternal Word incarnate in Christ. On the other hand, creation and recreation disclose the fundamental ontological and moral character of human existence.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions' , pp. 75 - 91Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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Further Reading
Brachtendorf, J. “… damit sie weinen lernen im Tal der Tränen. Augustin und die christliche Rehabilitation der Affekte.” In Unruhig ist unser Herz. Interpretationen zu Augustins Confessiones, ed. Fiedrowicz, M.. Trier: Paulinus, 2004, 123–139.Google Scholar
Harrison, C. “The Role of Creatio ex Nihilo in Augustine’s Confessions.” Studia Ephemeridis Augustinianum 85 (2003), 415–419.Google Scholar
O’Daly, G. “Time as Distentio and St. Augustine’s Exegesis of Philippians 3, 12–14.” Revue des Études Augustiniennes 23 (1977), 265–271.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ortiz, J. “You Made Us for Yourself”: Creation in St Augustine’s Confessions. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2016.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Torchia, N. J. Creatio ex nihilo and the Theology of St. Augustine: The Anti-Manichaean Polemic and Beyond. American University Studies VII, Theology and Religion 205. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.Google Scholar
Torrance Kirby, W. J. “Praise as the Soul’s Overcoming of Time in the Confessions of St. Augustine,” Pro Ecclesia 6/2 (1997), 333–350.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Werpehowski, W. “Weeping at the Death of Dido: Sorrow, Virtue, and Augustine’s Confessions,” Journal of Religious Ethics 19/1 (1991), 175–191.Google Scholar
Williams, R. “Good for Nothing? Augustine on Creation,” Augustinian Studies 25 (1994), 9–23.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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