{"product_id":"let-in-the-light-9780231205009","title":"Let in the Light","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Boyd White invites readers to join him in a close and engaged encounter with St. Augustine’s \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e. He offers an accessible guide to reading the text in Latin—even for those who have never studied the language—guiding readers to experience the immediacy, urgency, and vitality of Augustine’s writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI've spent fifty years translating Sanskrit texts, but only now has this book taught me how to read a text in a foreign language and how to read (and write) a translation. It is also a brilliant book about Latin, Augustine, God, and the meaning of life. -- Wendy Doniger, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuch careful, loving reading as we find in James Boyd White's book is as rare as it is precious. This is a book to be read slowly, allowing Augustine's Latin to resonate⁠—to be felt even when little understood. For words are living things, and we here come to know that Augustine's \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e is a work that is alive in words with all their human complexity— but above all with love. -- David Jasper, author of \u003ci\u003eHeaven in Ordinary: Religion and Poetry in a Secular Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet in the Light \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a better way to read a work of literature of enormous and enduring importance. White argues that our easy familiarity with the English language and the inevitable distance and distortions associated with any translation create a barrier between Augustine and his readers. He is a lively, clear, and engaging writer, and the book is extremely sophisticated about literary criticism but wears its sophistication lightly. -- M. Cathleen Kaveny, author of \u003ci\u003eEthics at the Edges of Law: Christian Moralists and American Legal Thought\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is a gift to anyone who loves the \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e already, or indeed to anyone who wonders why the book has such standing in the theological and literary tradition. * Religious Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAn Outline of Augustine’s Life up to the Composition of the \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Shape of the \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. The First Three Sentences (Book 1)\u003cbr\u003e3. The Movement from One Mode of Thought to Another (Book 1)\u003cbr\u003e4. Remembering Early Childhood and Language Breaking Down (Book 1)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Adolescence, Sex, and the Stolen Pears (Book 2)\u003cbr\u003e6. Love, Philosophy, and Monnica’s Dream (Book 3)\u003cbr\u003e7. Friendship and Struggles with Manicheism (book 4)\u003cbr\u003e8. From the Manichees to Ambrose (Book 5)\u003cbr\u003e9. Certainty and Uncertainty (Book 6)\u003cbr\u003e10. Imagining God and the Origin of Evil (Book 7)\u003cbr\u003e11. The Conversion in the Garden (Book 8)\u003cbr\u003e12. What It Meant (Book 9)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13. Memory, Sin, and Redemption (Book 10)\u003cbr\u003e14. Time (Book 11)\u003cbr\u003e15. Reading \u003ci\u003eGenesis\u003c\/i\u003e: The Creation Story (Book 12)\u003cbr\u003e16. “Knock and It Shall Be Opened unto You” (Book 13)\u003cbr\u003eCoda\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524657848663,"sku":"9780231205009","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231205009.jpg?v=1731857642","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/let-in-the-light-9780231205009","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}