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Confessions de Saint Augustine

Confessions

Autor Saint Augustine Editat de Lexkurion Publishing House
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 ian 2026

Considerăm că această ediție a lucrării Confessions, tradusă de R. S. Pine-Coffin pentru Penguin Books, aduce o claritate necesară unui text fundamental, reușind să echilibreze rigoarea academică cu o fluiditate narativă ce lipsește adesea versiunilor arhaice. Față de literatura existentă, această versiune reușește să redea cu o vitalitate surprinzătoare zbuciumul interior al lui Saint Augustine, transformând o confesiune teologică într-o experiență umană profundă și accesibilă cititorului modern. Găsim aici nu doar un tratat despre credință, ci o cronică a transformării sociale și intelectuale, de la originile sale umile în Algeria până la jocurile de putere de la curtea imperială din Milano. Structura volumului urmează progresia spirituală a autorului, fiind completată de un aparat critic esențial: o introducere detaliată, o notă bibliografică și un index care facilitează navigarea prin temele complexe ale memoriei, timpului și voinței. Acoperă aceeași arie tematică ca The Confessions of Saint Augustine (Translated by Edward Bouverie Pusey), dar cu o abordare mult mai axată pe calitatea literară a prozei, evitând limbajul excesiv de ritualic în favoarea unei acurateți psihologice. În contextul operei sale, dacă Fount of Heaven - Prayers of the Early Church se concentrează pe dimensiunea liturgică, Confessions rămâne pilonul central care explică geneza gândirii sale, oferind contextul biografic necesar pentru a înțelege trecerea de la hedonismul tinereții la rigoarea filozofiei creștine. Este, în esență, documentul unei minți strălucite care își analizează propriile eșecuri cu o onestitate brutală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9786597883301
ISBN-10: 6597883306
Pagini: 156
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: LexKurion Publishing House

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru oricine dorește să exploreze rădăcinile introspecției occidentale. Cititorul câștigă acces la prima mare autobiografie a lumii, descoperind că dilemele lui Saint Augustine privind ambiția, sexualitatea și identitatea sunt surprinzător de actuale. Este o recomandare certă pentru studenții la filosofie, istorie sau teologie, dar și pentru cititorul pasionat de memorii care caută o analiză psihologică profundă a procesului de schimbare personală.

Despre autor

Saint Augustine (354–430 d.Hr.), născut în Tagaste (Algeria de azi), a fost una dintre cele mai influente figuri ale creștinismului timpuriu și ale filozofiei vestice. Fiu al unui tată păgân și al unei mame creștine, a trăit o tinerețe marcată de căutări intelectuale și plăceri lumești, profesând ca retor în Cartagina, Roma și Milano. După o criză spirituală și intelectuală profundă, s-a convertit la creștinism la vârsta de 31 de ani, devenind ulterior episcop de Hippo. Opera sa vastă a pus bazele teologiei medievale și a influențat decisiv conceptele moderne despre sine și conștiință.

Descriere

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In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art. Augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive, his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high power at the imperial court of Milan, and his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage as he recovered the faith that his mother had taught him. It was in a Milan garden that Augustine finally achieved the act of will to Christian conversion, which he compared to a lazy man in bed finally deciding it is time to get up and face the day. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Cuprins

Introduction; Bibliographical note; Dates; The Confessions; Index

Recenzii

If the Latin is a "work of high art", so is this translation.
"My favourite translation is Henry Chadwick's (Oxford World's Classics), always clear, often racy, and capable of rising when necessary to Augustine's sublimer moments."

Notă biografică

Aurelius Augustinus (354-430) was born and raised in Roman North Africa. His mother Monica provided a Catholic upbringing in his modest home town of Thagaste. However, Augustine preferred the liberties available to young men of his time and place. He also excelled at school. As a student at Carthage he joined the Manichean religious sect. After teaching rhetoric at Carthage and then Rome, he rose to become the official spokesperson for the Roman Emperor in Milan. Amidst a crisis of faith and doubt, Augustine read the writings of Neo-Platonic philosophers and listened to the preaching of Bishop Ambrose of Milan. Resigning from imperial service, the 32 year old Augustine began an intensive study of scripture. He was baptized by Ambrose at the Easter Vigil in April of 387. A year later he returned to Africa and within several years was ordained to serve the diocese of Hippo (present day Annaba, Algeria), as priest and then bishop. Charged with the pastoral care of his people, and confronted by the major doctrinal controversies in the early Church, Augustine employed his significant rhetorical skills and his genius for writing to compose some of the foundational texts of Christian theology in the Latin West. These include his Confessions, Teaching Christianity, The City of God, The Trinity, Expositions of the Psalms-to name just a few of his many books. We also have almost 300 of his letters to a wide variety of correspondents, and 400 of his sermons. Augustine criticized the rejection of the Hebrew Scriptures by his former Manichean co-religionists; argued against the exclusionary ecclesiology of the Donatist Christians; confronted Arian Christianity with a deeply Catholic Christology; and, until the end of his life defended the supremacy of divine grace against what he understood to be the self-justification preached by the followers of the British monk Pelagius. His interpretation of original sin and its effects on humanity grew out of his personal and pastoral experience of the human pain and suffering wrought by ignorance and by disordered, destructive choices. Throughout the Middle Ages, Augustine's writings remained influential and extended the influence of Platonic philosophy in Western Christendom. Even after the 13th century rise of Aristotelian philosophy in the writing of Thomas Aquinas, Augustinian thought persisted in various Medieval schools, and in the writings of Martin Luther, who had been a member of the Order of Saint Augustine. Augustine's thought was influential at the Second Vatican Council. He remains a conversation partner for philosophers and religious thinkers of many persuasions. The latest, complete translations of his works in English are published by New City Press in partnership with The Augustinian Heritage Institute.

Descriere scurtă

Confessions (401) is the work of Saint Augustine, a Roman theologian and bishop responsible for some of the core doctrines of today's Catholic church. His literary works, including The Confessions, The Enchiridion, and On Christian Doctrine, are commonly viewed as foundational works of Christian theology and Western philosophy. Bishop of Hippo Regius-in modern day Algeria-from 395 to his death in 430, Augustine helped to justify and consolidate the role of Christianity in the Roman Empire and was canonized as a saint for his efforts. A young man does poorly in school, steals from his neighbor's orchard, and has a son with a woman to whom he is not married. These are some of the core personal experiences detailed by Augustine in his autobiographical and theological work Confessions, in which he grows from a life of sin to accepting God and the Christian faith. Interspersed with stories of his life and conversion are descriptions and critiques of Neoplatonism, Manichaeism, and astrology, systems of belief and understanding which, for Augustine, fall short of the vision of humanity and salvation offered by Christianity. Throughout this text, Augustine encourages readers-especially those who have led troubled lives-not only to convert to Christianity, but to understand the inherent imperfection of all humanity and to envision the ultimately hopeful message of transformation and forgiveness offered by faith in God. Confessions is at heart a Christian text, but it is also essentially human. Augustine is remembered not just as a saint and Christian leader, but as a figure who precipitated the evolution of Western thought. Augustine's Confessions is a foundational work of autobiographical and philosophical writing, influencing such writers as Blaise Pascal, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Aquinas, Bertrand Russell, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Its personal nature and depth of honesty are considered formal innovations in autobiography and memoir writing, and its meditations on God and human nature have made it an essential text for philosophers and theologians for centuries. This edition of Saint Augustine's Confessions is a classic of autobiography and Christian theology reimagined for modern readers. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.