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The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Rereading the Confessions (review)
Ist Teil von
Journal of Early Christian Studies, 2008, Vol.16 (1), p.117-118
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Mystic crystal revelations and the mind's true liberation offer bewitching topics for scholarly investigation by busy and distracted moderns. Given the ineffability of mystical experience and the verbosity of some practitioners in expressing that ineffability, it is hard to know whether the states of mind and consciousness experienced by a modern Zen monk, an ancient Christian bishop, and a browser of the New Age shelves at City Lights bookstore in San Francisco have much at all to do with each other. The form of the book is, as the title advertises, a rereading of the Confessions, following ground that specialists will find familiar but will still cover again under Kenney's guidance with appreciation, and then a reflection rooted in both the Augustinian scholarship (two-thirds of a page of the six pages devoted to modern scholarship are filled by O'Connell, O'Daly, O'Donnell, O'Donovan, O'Meara maior, and O'Meara minor) and the modern scholarship of mysticism.