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OverviewOn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Margaret R. Miles (Graduate Theological Union, USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Weight: 0.299kg ISBN: 9781350191433ISBN 10: 1350191434 Pages: 128 Publication Date: 11 February 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPreface: Reading for Life Acknowledgments Texts and Translations List of Abbreviations 1. Augustine: Theologian of Feeling 2. Augustine’s Coniugium 3. Augustine’s Conversions 4. Bodies, Pleasures, and the Young Augustine 5. Augustine’s Meditation 6. Augustine’s Tears References IndexReviewsIn this elegant book, Margaret R. Miles reflects on a lifetime of reading Augustine. Examining Augustine's ideas about marriage, conversion, emotion and meditation, and her own varied responses to Augustine over some fifty years, Miles produces a profoundly rich and evocative work on what it means to read for life. -- Jane Shaw, Professor of the History of Religion, University of Oxford, UK I know of no one better equipped than Margaret R. Miles to fathom the depths of Augustine's deathbed tears. She brings to the scene an alchemical mix of historical discretion, scholarly ingenuity, patient self-awareness, and well-tempered love. This is reading as a spiritual art form. -- James Wetzel, Villanova University, USA Author InformationMargaret R. Miles is Professor Emerita of Historical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA. She is the author of Augustine and the Fundamentalist’s Daughter (2014), The Long Goodbye: Dementia Diaries (2017), and Recollections and Reconsiderations (2018). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |