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Images of Conversion in St. Augustine's Confessions (Hardcover, New)
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Images of Conversion in St. Augustine's Confessions (Hardcover, New)
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In his preceding work, Soundings in Augustine's Imagination, Father
O'Connell outlined the three basic images Augustine employs to
frame his view of the human condition. In the present study, he
applies the same techniques of image-analysis to the three major
"conversions" recounted in the Confessions. Those conversions were
occasioned, first, by Augustine's youthful reading of Cicero's
Hortensius, then by his reading of what he calls the "books of the
Platonists", and finally, most decisively, by his fateful reading
in that Milanese garden of the explosive capitulum, or
"chapterlet", from St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. Dissection of
Augustine's imagery discloses a chain of striking connections
between these conversions. Each of them, for instance, features a
return to a woman - now a bridal, now a maternal figure, and
finally, a mysterious stand-in for Divine Wisdom, both bridal and
maternal. Unsurprisingly, conversion-imagery also provokes a fresh
estimate of the sexual component in Augustine's religious
biography; but the sexual aspect is balanced by Augustine's
insistent stress on the "vanity" of his worldly ambitions. Perhaps
most arresting of all is Father O'Connell's analysis showing that
the text that Augustine read from Romans consisted of not only two,
but four verses: hence the dramatic procession of images which make
up the structure of the Confessions, Book VII; hence, too, the
presence, subtle but real, of those same image-complexes in the
Dialogues Augustine composed soon after his conversion in A.D. 386.
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