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You Made Us for Yourself

Creation in St. Augustine's Confessions [Hardback]

by Jared Oritz

    • Author

      Jared Oritz

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Fortress Press,U.S.

    • Published

      April 2016

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      Augustine's Confessions is probably the most commented upon text of early Christianity. Yet, there is a general consensus that this justly famous work is neither well composed nor structurally unified. "You Made Us for Yourself" aims to challenge this common notion by approaching the Confessions in light of what Augustine himself would have considered most I fundamental: creation, understood in a broad sense. Creation, for Augustine, is an epiphany, a light that reveals who God is and who human beings are. It is not merely one doctrine or theme among others, but is the foundational context which illumines all doctrines and all themes. Moreover, creation, for Augustine, is dynamically ordered toward the church, toward the deified destiny the body of Christ both is and brings about. Thus, the Confessions itself can be understood as Augustine's prayer of praise in thanksgiving for the unmerited gift of creation (and re-creation). It is his self-gift back to God-a kind of Eucharistic Offering intended to take up and bring about the same in his readers.

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      • Author

        Jared Oritz

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Fortress Press,U.S.

      • Published

        April 2016

      • Weight

        523g

      • Page Count

        288

      • Dimensions

        155 x 232 x 21 mm

      • ISBN

        9781506406862

      • ISBN-10

        1506406866

      • Eden Code

        4456552

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      • Author/Creator: Jared Oritz

      • ISBN: 9781506406862

      • Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.

      • Release Date: April 2016

      • Weight: 523g

      • Dimensions: 155 x 232 x 21 mm

      • Eden Code: 4456552


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