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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Cassiciacum."”.
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Incarnation, Interpretation and Quotation: Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues and Confessions
… in malleable language. I argue that in the Cassiciacum dialogues and Confessions, quotation becomes Augustine’s laboratory for addressing this problem. I see studying Augustine’s use of quotation as a method that allows us to be attentive to his concerns as both a theologian and a writer. As …
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The conversion and therapy of desire in Augustine's Cassiciacum dialogues.
… In this dissertation I examine Augustine's Cassiciacum dialogues. In Contra Academicos (Against the Academics), Augustine argues that we must vigorously desire wisdom in order to attain it; that we must have hope in the possibility of attaining wisdom; and that our desire for wisdom must be …
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Augustine and the Limits of Memory: Augustine’s Account of Memory and its Contemporary Theological and Ethical Significance
… under-explored texts apropos memory such as his Cassiciacum dialogues, Enarrationes in Psalmos, Sermones, and anti-Pelagian writings. In doing so, I argue and demonstrate that Augustine’s account of memory involves more than just the binary of self-knowledge vis-à-vis knowledge of God, but …
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Augustine against the academic doctrine, way of life, and use of philosophical writing.
… I offer a reading of the first of Augustine's Cassiciacum dialogues, the Contra Academicos, that shows how his work can be read as a comprehensive rejection of the Academic philosophical life and doctrine as presented in Cicero's dialogue, the Academica. To accomplish the goal, the work begins …