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Augustine introduction: Neoplatonism

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Post by Sonia Fanucchi Wed Jul 20, 2016 3:08 pm

This is rather a neat summary of the ways in which Augustine draws on Neoplatonism in Confessions

http://www.protevi.com/john/SH/PDF/Neoplatonism.pdf

There is a new book on Augustine's confessions that looks promising. This review also helps to make the main preoccupations of Confessions a bit clearer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/books/review/augustine-conversions-to-confessions-by-robin-lane-fox.html?_r=0

This is a very clear and useful introduction to Confessions:

http://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/augustine/introconf.html

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