Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter

by Margaret R Miles

Author	: Margaret R Miles
Publisher	: Lutterworth Press
Total Pages	: 234
Release	: 2012-01-26
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 0718840267

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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 into fundamentalist convictions and habits of mind, as well as into the differences among fundamentalists. Such reflections are especially urgent in this time in which fundamentalism is prominent in political and social discourse.

Recollections and Reconsiderations

by Margaret R. Miles

Author	: Margaret R. Miles
Publisher	: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages	: 175
Release	: 2018-12-18
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 1532640579

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Several years before his death, Augustine of Hippo reviewed his published works, commenting on his purpose in writing each, and correcting, from his present perspective, the mistakes he noticed. Inspired by Augustine’s Retractationes, Miles’s Recollections and Reconsiderations undertakes a similar project, a critical review of almost fifty years of her publications. Rereading and rethinking in chronological order effectively bonds life and thought into a corpus, a body of work with consistent values and interests. Such a review would be an illuminating project for any longtime scholar/student—both rewarding and humbling, an exercise in self-knowledge. Informed by a lifetime of studying Christian traditions, Miles concludes by describing both endemic problems with Christianity, and what she sees is its essence and beauty.

On King Lear, The Confessions, and Human Experience and Nature

by Kim Paffenroth

Author	: Kim Paffenroth
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages	: 192
Release	: 2021-05-20
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 1350203211

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Augustine's Confessions and Shakespeare's King Lear are two of the most influential and enduring works of the Western canon or world literature. But what does Stratford-upon-Avon have to do with Hippo, or the ascetical heretic-fighting polemicist with the author of some of the world's most beautiful love poetry? To answer these questions, Kim Paffenroth analyses the similarities and differences between the thinking of these two figures on the themes of love, language, nature and reason. Pairing and connecting the insights of Shakespeare's most nihilist tragedy with those of Augustine's most personal and sometimes self-condemnatory, sometimes triumphal work, challenges us to see their worldviews as more similar than they first seem, and as more relevant to our own fragmented and disillusioned world.

The T&T Clark Companion to Augustine and Modern Theology

by C.C. Pecknold

Author	: C.C. Pecknold
Publisher	: A&C Black
Total Pages	: 336
Release	: 2013-07-18
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 0567142574

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The T&T Clark Companion to Augustine and Modern Theology is both a theological companion to the study of Augustine, and a resource for thinking about Augustine's importance in modern theology. Each of the essays brings Augustinian depth to a broad range of contemporary theological concerns. The volume unveils cutting-edge Augustinian scholarship for a new generation and at the same time enables readers to see the timely significance of Augustine for today. Each of the essays not only introduces readers to key themes in the Augustinian corpus but also provides readers with fresh interpretations that are fully conversant with the theological problems facing the church in our world today. Designed as both a guide for students and a reference point for scholars, it will seek both to outline the frameworks of key Augustinian debates while at all times pushing forward fresh interpretative strategies concerning his thought.

Augustine's City of God

by James Wetzel

Author	: James Wetzel
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 281
Release	: 2012-10-04
Genre	: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN	: 0521199948

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This volume addresses the complex and conflicted vision in Augustine's City of God, as a heavenly city on earthly pilgrimage.

On Memory, Marriage, Tears and Meditation

by Margaret R. Miles

Author	: Margaret R. Miles
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages	: 129
Release	: 2021-01-14
Genre	: Philosophy
ISBN	: 1350191442

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On Memory, Marriage, Tears, and Meditation offers readers the tools for reading Augustine's journey to human emotions through his writings on feeling, marriage, conversion, and meditation. Augustine understood that feeling, not rationality, gathers and reveals the deep longing of the whole person. Throughout his ecclesiastical career, he discussed marriage in sermons, letters, and treatises from the perspective of his own experience. Miles examines Augustine's prototypes for conversion – reading and conversion; sacrifice and conversion; and the importance of friends in what might be considered a subjective and private process. Meditation was central to Augustine's Christian life and Miles argues that his practice of meditation suggests that penitence included a rich range of feeling leading to gratitude, peace, wonder, and love.

The Practice of the Presence of God

by Martin Laird

Author	: Martin Laird
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages	: 151
Release	: 2016-11-29
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 1317076575

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Exploring the unity of the practice of prayer and the practice of theology, this book draws together insights from world-class theologians including Rowan Williams, Andrew Louth, Frances Young, Margaret R. Miles, Sebastian Brock, and Nicholaï Sakharov. Offering glimpses of the prayer-life and witness that undergirds theological endeavour, some authors approach the topic in a deeply personal way while others express the unity of prayer and the theologian in a traditionally scholarly manner. No matter what the denomination of the Christian theologian - Greek or Russian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican, Methodist - authors demonstrate that the discipline of theology cannot properly be practiced apart from the prayer life of the theologian. The prayer of the theologian shapes her or his approach to theology. Whether it be preaching, teaching, writing or research, the deep soundings of prayer inform and embrace all.

Christian Doctrine and the Grammar of Difference

by Janice McRandal

Author	: Janice McRandal
Publisher	: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Total Pages	: 213
Release	: 2015
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 145148447X

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Rees argues that the doctrinal narrative of creation, fall, and redemption provides resources to resolve the theological impasse of difference in contemporary feminist theology. The divine economy reveals a God who enters into history and destabilizes fixed binaries and oppressive categories. As created subjects, we are sustained, affirmed, and drawn back into the Triune life, patterns present in liturgy, prayer, and practices of contemplation. The grammar of Christian faith cannot ultimately be uncovered except in prayer, opened beyond itself to a source of life and giving.

Beyond the Centaur

by Margaret R. Miles

Author	: Margaret R. Miles
Publisher	: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages	: 149
Release	: 2014-07-17
Genre	: Religion
ISBN	: 1625644205

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Beyond the Centaur questions the accuracy and usefulness of the virtually unquestioned ancient consensus that persons are composed of unequally valued, hierarchically stacked antagonistic components, usually soul or mind and body. Part I explores the gradual historical development of this notion of person. Part II consists of a thought experiment, examining an understanding of persons, not as stacked components, but as intelligent bodies--one entity. It explores how a new understanding of persons can affect in important and fruitful ways how we live: how we move, feel, think, believe, and die.