Confessions

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History

 

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Lucile C

 

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November 17, 2015

 

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University

 

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This shift should be understood in the same context as the double meaning of 'confessions'—for Augustine, the story of his sinful life and redemption is in fact a profoundly philosophical and religious matter, since his story is only one example of the way all imperfect creation yearns to return to God...
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Thus, the story of the return to God is set out first as an autobiography, and then in conceptual terms. This idea of the return also serves as a good access to the philosophical and theological context in which Augustine is thinking and writing. The most important influence here (besides the Bible) is Neoplatonism, a few major texts of which Augustine read shortly before his conversion...
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