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Christ meets me everywhere : Augustine's early figurative exegesis /
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 Ada...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2012.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Ask, seek, knock: approaching Augustine's figurative reading
- Novice: rhetor, convert, seeker of wisdom (386-391). Eureka! In Milan: when Ambrose taught Augustine what he already knew ; A thousand words is worth a picture: the experiment of On Genesis, against the Manichees ; Enigma variations: playing hide-and-seek in the figurative reading framework ; Book binder: Christ the glue of scriptural unity
- Journeyman: Priest, apprentice, student of Paul (391-396). Reading Moses in the school of St. Paul: the apostle and Christology 101 ; Hearing voices: Christ at prayer "in the psalm and on the cross"
- Master: teacher, defender, pastor of souls (396-ca. 400). High and low on Jacob's ladder: reading scripture from both ends in On Christian teaching and On instructing beginners ; The Old Testament as the first book of the new: Augustine figures it out against Faustus the Manichee
- Epilogue: The astounding exchange.