Journey toward God in Augustine's Confessions
Books I-VI
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Interpreting this statement, Carl G. Vaught presents a more emphatically Christian Augustine than is usually found in contemporary scholarship. Refusing to view Augustine in an exclusively Neoplatonic framework, Vaught holds that Augustine baptizes Plotinus just as successfully as Aquinas baptizes Aristotle. It cannot be denied that Ancient philosophy influences Augustine decisively. Nevertheless, he holds the experiential and the theoretical dimensions of his journey toward God together as a distinctive expression of the Christian tradition.
Preface
Introduction
The Framework of the Enterprise
The Centrality of God and the Soul
Problems of Access to the Text
1. Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence: From Will to Willfulness (Books I-II)
The Dynamism of the Text (1.1.1-1.5.6)
Origins and Infancy (1.6.7-1.7.12)
Language and Education (1.8.13-1.18.29)
Personal Defects, Imago Dei, and Sin (1.19.30-1.19.31)
Sexuality (2.1.1-2.3.8)
The Pear-Stealing Episode (2.4.9-2.10.18)
2. The Philosophical Turn: Seven Stages of Experiential and Reflective Development (Books III-IV)
Love, False Images, and Rhetoric (3.1.1-3.3.6)
Cicero and the Bible (3.4.7-3.5.9)
Becoming a Manichaean (3.6.10-3.12.21)
Fragmentation, Illegitimacy, and Astrology (4.1.1-4.3.6)
The Death of a Friend (4.4.7-4.12.19)
The Beautiful and the Fitting (4.13.20-4.15.27)
Categories, Transcendentals, and the Liberal Arts (4.16.28-4.16.31)
3. Manichaeism, Skepticism, and Christianity (Books V-VI)
The Presence and Absence of God (5.1.1-5.2.2)
The Failure of Faustus (5.3.3-5.7.13)
The Flight to Rome (5.8.14-5.12.22)
Ambrose and the Christian Faith (5.13.23-25; 6.1.1-6.5.8)
Fragmentation and Friendship (6.6.9-6.16.26)
Notes
Bibliography
Index