On Memory, Marriage, Tears and Meditation

By Margaret R. Miles and Miles Hollingworth

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350191426
• ISBN13: 9781350191426
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"