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Confessing Mysticism.(The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Rereading the Confessions)(Book review)

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From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife
Date: 20061101
Author:Wilken, Robert Louis

THE MYSTICISM OF SAINT AUGUSTINE: REREADING THE CONFESSIONS by JOHN PETER KENNEY Routledge, 160 pages, $115

FOR MANY, AUGUSTINE'S City of God seems a more difficult book than the Confessions. It is very long, and its architectonic structure demands that one hold in mind ideas from earlier chapters to negotiate the final stages of the argument. And, of course, it is filled with digressions that seem to wander off in unpredictable directions. But the Confessions is surely the more subtle and challenging work, and its autobiographical style can easily lead one astray. This is ...

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