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1 - Title, Time, and Circumstances of Composition

The Genesis of the Confessions

from Part I - Circumstances of Composition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2020

By
Carolyn Hammond
Edited by
Tarmo Toom
Tarmo Toom
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

This chapter is a survey of the genesis of the book “Confessions,” including reflections on the title, structure, date, influences, and style; an examination of the conversational structure of the text, including the dialogic form in relation to “Confessions” as a prayer; and an analysis of the terminology of “confession” as both positive (praise) and negative (admission of wrongdoing).

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The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions' , pp. 11 - 27
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Arts, M. R. “The Syntax of the Confessions of Saint Augustine.” PhD dissertation, Catholic University of America, 1927.Google Scholar
Blaise, A. and Chirat, H., Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs chrétiens. Turnhout: Brepols, 1954 (reprinted 1997).Google Scholar
Broeniman, C. S. “The Resurrection of a Latin Classic: The ‘Confessions’ of St. Augustine,” The Classical World 86 (1993), 209–213.Google Scholar
Campbell, J. M. and McGuire, M. R. P., The Confessions of Saint Augustine: Books I–IX (Selections). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966 (reprint 2007).Google Scholar
Clark, G. Augustine, Confessions: Books I–IV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.Google Scholar
Condon, M. G. “The Unnamed and the Defaced: The Limits of Rhetoric in Augustine’s ‘Confessiones,’” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 69 (2001), 43–63.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gibb, J. and Montgomery, W., The Confessions of Augustine. Cambridge Patristic Texts; Latin Texts and Commentaries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1908 (reprinted 1979).Google Scholar
Hagendahl, H. Augustine and the Latin Classics, two vols. Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia 20. Göteborg: Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1967.Google Scholar
O’Meara, J. J. The Young Augustine: An Introduction to the Confessions of S. Augustine. London: Longman 1954 (second rev. ed. 2001).Google Scholar
Rothfield, L. “Autobiography and Perspective in the Confessions of St. Augustine,” Comparative Literature 33 (1981), 209–223.Google Scholar
Salway, B. “What’s in a Name? A Survey of Roman Onomastic Practice from c. 700 B.C. to A.D. 700,” Journal of Roman Studies 84 (1994), 124–145.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. “Confessio,” see www.degruyter.com/view/db/tll.Google Scholar
Verheijen, M. Eloquentia Pedisequa: Observations sur le style des Confessions de Saint Augustin. Nijmegen: Dekker & Van de Vegt, 1949.Google Scholar

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