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Book SynopsisMargaret R. Miles is Professor Emerita of Historical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA. She is the author of
Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter (2014),
The Long Goodbye:
Dementia Diaries (2017), and
Recollections and Reconsiderations (2018).
Trade ReviewIn this elegant book, Margaret R. Miles reflects on a lifetime of reading Augustine. Examining Augustine's ideas about marriage, conversion, emotion and meditation, and her own varied responses to Augustine over some fifty years, Miles produces a profoundly rich and evocative work on what it means to read "for life." -- Jane Shaw, Professor of the History of Religion, University of Oxford, UK
I know of no one better equipped than Margaret R. Miles to fathom the depths of Augustine’s deathbed tears. She brings to the scene an alchemical mix of historical discretion, scholarly ingenuity, patient self-awareness, and well-tempered love. This is reading as a spiritual art form. -- James Wetzel, Villanova University, USA
Table of ContentsPreface: Reading for Life Acknowledgments Texts and Translations List of Abbreviations 1. Augustine: Theologian of Feeling 2. Augustine’s
Coniugium 3. Augustine’s Conversions 4. Bodies, Pleasures, and the Young Augustine 5. Augustine’s Meditation 6. Augustine’s Tears References Index
