Christ Meets Me Everywhere: Augustine's Early Figurative Exegesis - Couverture rigide

Cameron, Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199751293 ISBN 13 : 9780199751297

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2012

Synopsis

Most readers first encounter Augustine's love for Scripture's words in the many biblical allusions of his masterwork, the Confessions. Augustine does not merely quote texts, but in many ways makes Scripture itself tell the story. In his journey from darkness to light, Augustine becomes Adam in the Garden of Eden, the Prodigal Son of Jesus' parable, the Pauline double personality at once devoted to and rebellious against God's law. Throughout he speaks the words of the Psalms as if he had written them. Crucial to Augustine's self-portrayal is his skill at transposing himself into the texts. He sees their properties and dynamics as his own, and by extension, every believing reader's own. In Christ Meets Me Everywhere, Michael Cameron argues that Augustine wanted to train readers of Scripture to transpose themselves into the texts in the same way he did, by the same process of figuration that he found at its core. Tracking Augustine's developing practice of self-transposition into the figures of the biblical texts over the course of his entire career, Cameron shows that this practice is the key to Augustine's hermeneutics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michael Cameron is Associate Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Portland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199751293
• ISBN 13: 9780199751297
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible