John Peter Kenney is Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Michael’s College, USA. He was previously Professor of Religion and Humanities at Reed College and then Dean of the College at Saint Michael’s. He is the author of Mystical Monotheism: A Study in Ancient Platonic Theology (1991), The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Rereading the Confessions (2005) and Contemplation and Classical Christianity: A Study in Augustine (2013).

Kenney’s work is notable. It touches upon areas which students and scholars studying Saint Augustine, the late Roman Empire, Constantine, or any related fields would find interesting. Kenney’s work would be welcome in the library of any institution which focuses upon these areas of study.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Reading Augustine1. Christian EnlightenmentVarieties of ChristianityPagan MonotheismImmaterial Truth2. God SoliloquiesEternal WisdomContemplation and the God of Augustine3. The SoulConfessional IntrospectionThe Cursive SelfTranscendence of the Soul4. EvilContemporary TheodicyConfessing Evil‘Scattered Traces of His Being’5. The Rise of ChristianityDeificationBeatitudeContemplative ChristianityBibliography

John Peter Kenney is Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Michael’s College, USA. He was previously Professor of Religion and Humanities at Reed College and then Dean of the College at Saint Michael’s. He is the author of Mystical Monotheism: A Study in Ancient Platonic Theology (1991), The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Rereading the Confessions (2005) and Contemplation and Classical Christianity: A Study in Augustine (2013).

Kenney’s work is notable. It touches upon areas which students and scholars studying Saint Augustine, the late Roman Empire, Constantine, or any related fields would find interesting. Kenney’s work would be welcome in the library of any institution which focuses upon these areas of study.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Reading Augustine1. Christian EnlightenmentVarieties of ChristianityPagan MonotheismImmaterial Truth2. God SoliloquiesEternal WisdomContemplation and the God of Augustine3. The SoulConfessional IntrospectionThe Cursive SelfTranscendence of the Soul4. EvilContemporary TheodicyConfessing Evil‘Scattered Traces of His Being’5. The Rise of ChristianityDeificationBeatitudeContemplative ChristianityBibliography

John Peter Kenney is Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Michael’s College, USA. He was previously Professor of Religion and Humanities at Reed College and then Dean of the College at Saint Michael’s. He is the author of Mystical Monotheism: A Study in Ancient Platonic Theology (1991), The Mysticism of Saint Augustine: Rereading the Confessions (2005) and Contemplation and Classical Christianity: A Study in Augustine (2013).

Kenney’s work is notable. It touches upon areas which students and scholars studying Saint Augustine, the late Roman Empire, Constantine, or any related fields would find interesting. Kenney’s work would be welcome in the library of any institution which focuses upon these areas of study.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Reading Augustine1. Christian EnlightenmentVarieties of ChristianityPagan MonotheismImmaterial Truth2. God SoliloquiesEternal WisdomContemplation and the God of Augustine3. The SoulConfessional IntrospectionThe Cursive SelfTranscendence of the Soul4. EvilContemporary TheodicyConfessing Evil‘Scattered Traces of His Being’5. The Rise of ChristianityDeificationBeatitudeContemplative ChristianityBibliography