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You Made Us for Yourself

Creation in St. Augustine's Confessions

by Jared Oritz

  • Hardback
  • 288 pages
  • Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
  • 15.5 x 23.2 x 2.1 cm

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For readers interested in early Christian theology

Challenges misconceptions about Augustine's Confessions

You will gain deeper insights into creation and faith

This insightful book explores creation in Augustine's Confessions.

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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

    15.5 x 23.2 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781506406862

  • ISBN-10

    1506406866

  • Eden Code

    4456552

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