Description: In Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter,
Margaret Miles weaves her memoirs together with reflections on
Augustine's Confessions. Having read and reread Augustine's
Confessions, in admiration as well as frustration, over the past
thirty-five years, Miles brings her memories of childhood and youth
in a fundamentalist home into conversation with Augustine's effort
to understand his life. The result is a fascinating work of
autobiographical and theological reflection. Moreover, this project
brings together a rare combination of insights on fundamentalists'
convictions and habits of mind, as well as on differences among
fundamentalists. Such reflections are especially urgent in this
time in which fundamentalism is prominent in political and social
discourse. Endorsements: ""For over thirty years we have read and
heard Margaret Miles on Augustine, and her insights on this
spectacular ancient have been compelling. Now we read Miles in
Augustine's Confessions, and her self-disclosure is as compelling
as Augustine's. This is a soul-rending book that opens the world of
Augustine to the world of a fundamentalist's daughter. We have
known for a long time that scholarly study reflects the life
experience of the scholar, but Miles has taken this both to new
heights and new depths. This book reveals both Augustine and the
world of a fundamentalist, and it is simply stunning in its depth
of disclosure and revelation--all what we have come to expect from
Augustine and now from Miles."" -Richard Valantasis Co-director,
Institute for Contemplative Living, Santa Fe Canon Theologian for
Formation and Education, Diocese of the Rio Grande ""Augustine and
the Fundamentalist's Daughter is a revealing, lively, and deeply
engrossing conversation among many speakers, from Saint Augustine
to modern poets to the multiple voices age and insight have given
Professor Miles on her own journey from fundamentalism to wisdom.
In this book, we meet the rich tapestry of life's defeats, fears,
delights, and changes in the vignettes of memories narrated from
either Augustine's new state of restful faith or Margaret Miles's
hard-won place of gracefully honest reflection. Find a quiet room,
pull up a chair, and listen to this superb scholar and teacher talk
with her longtime mentor, Augustine, about life, love, sex, faith,
and family. It is a conversation not to be missed."" -Mary Ann
Tolbert George H. Atkinson Professor of Biblical Studies Vice
President of Academic Affairs and Dean Pacific School of Religion,
Berkeley About the Contributor(s): Margaret R. Miles is Emerita
Professor of Historical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union,
Berkeley. She is the author of A Complex Delight: The
Secularization of the Breast, 1350-1750 (2008).
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