01314nam a2200133Ia 4500008004100000041000800041050002400049100002600073245007800099260007400177300002800251505078500279650011601064220922s9999 xx 000 0 und d aeng aBR65.A9 b.O26 1969 aO'Connell, Robert J.  0aSt. Augustine's Confessions: bthe Odyssey of soul /cRobert J. O'Connell aCambridge, Mass.: bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press, c1969 axiii, 200 p.b;c24 cm. aSoul's Odyssey: fall and return -- The Proemium (Book I, 1-6) -- A Meditation on Infancy (Book I, 7-31) -- The Prodigal's Wandering (Book II) -- First conversion : Cicero, the Manichees (Book III) -- To Become a "Little One" again (Books IV and V, 1-2) -- Faustus, Ambrose, and the "One Teacher" (Book V) -- The Medicine of faith and suffering (Book VI) -- Paroxysm and advancing cure (Book VII, 1-12). The Decisive admonition : Libri Platonicorum (Book VII, 13-17) -- A Central difficulty : emanation and omnipresence -- The Pearl is purchased (Book VIII) -- Contemplation and the Soul's "First-Fruits" (Book IX) -- Noverim Te, Noverim Me (Book X) -- Eternity and the fall into time (Book XI) -- The Soul's eternal home (Book XII) -- The Return of image to archetype (Book XIII). aAugustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.Confessiones (Augustine, of Hippo, Saint)