An Analysis of Augustine's Conversional Reading

Conf. 8, 12, 29

While there can be no doubting the profound sincerity and the permanence of Augustine's conversion in 386, it apparently did not transpire as described in Conf. VIII. Pauline textes that are important to the Confessions and especially to the conversion process are absent from Augustine's writings in...

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Author:Leo Charles Ferrari
Published: S.n., s.l., 1987
Volume:18
Pages:30-51
Periodical:Augustinian Studies
Format:Article
Topic:- Biography > Person and Life > Conversion / Baptism > Conversion
- Works > Confessiones > Conf. VIII > Conf. VIII, 12
- Doctrine > From man to God > Divine revelation > Exegesis > [Exégèse des textes du Nouveau Testament] > Epistles of St. Paul > [Romains] > Rom 13 > Rom 13,13-14
Status:Needs Review
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Summary:While there can be no doubting the profound sincerity and the permanence of Augustine's conversion in 386, it apparently did not transpire as described in Conf. VIII. Pauline textes that are important to the Confessions and especially to the conversion process are absent from Augustine's writings in the 8 years after the events of the eight book supposedly occured. Rom. VII, 14-25 is unique in that it goes back to Augustine's earlier writings and seems to have been the source of the self-revelationary character of the Confessions and of the paulinizing of the conversion scene.