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The Mysticism of Saint Augustine - Re-Reading the Confessions (Paperback)
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The Mysticism of Saint Augustine - Re-Reading the Confessions (Paperback)
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Augustine's vision at Ostia is one of the most influential accounts
of mystical experience in the Western tradition, and a subject of
persistent interest to Christians, philosophers and historians.
This book explores Augustine's account of his experience as set
down in the Confessions and considers his mysticism in relation to
his classical Platonist philosophy. John Peter Kenney argues that
while the Christian contemplative mysticism created by Augustine is
in many ways founded on Platonic thought, Platonism ultimately
fails Augustine in that it cannot retain the truths that it
anticipates. The Confessions offer a response to this impasse by
generating two critical ideas in medieval and modern religious
thought: firstly, the conception of contemplation as a purely
epistemic event, in contrast to classical Platonism; secondly, the
tenet that salvation is absolutely distinct from enlightenment.
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