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I was thinking about the above while reading a recent and splendid book by John Peter Kenney on Augustine's Confessions.(While We're At It)

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From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife
Date: 20071101
Author:Neuhaus, Richard John

* I was thinking about the above while reading a recent and splendid book by John Peter Kenney on Augustine's Confessions. The book is The Mysticism of Saint Augustine, and, in Kenney's "rereading" of Augustine's classic text, the emphasis is on the inescapably Christocentric character of Augustine's experience. This is against the frequent reading of the Confessions as a psychological thriller, which downplays the specifically Christian and theological in Augustine's story. He was, as everybody knows, a Neoplatonist, but a Neoplatonist with very important differences. In ...

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