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Augustine's Confessions: Ten Studies

Av Johannes van Oort

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This book presents new interpretations of essential and well-known passages from Augustine's Confessions. In ten chapters, Augustinian specialist Johannes van Oort analyzes and explains many essential passages in the work from the background of Augustine's thorough knowledge of Manichaeism. This 'Gnostic' variant of Christianity exerted a great influence on the North African Augustine, as evidenced in his most famous and (arguably) most influential work. In a new light appear such figures as Monnica, Ponticianus, Lady Continence, the rather obscure African bishop who speaks of Augustine as "a son of such tears"; events such as the 'illustrious' pear theft, the coming of "a glorious young man" to dreaming Monnica, Augustine's dramatic conversion; basic features such as his concept of 'God', deep sense of (sexual) sin, highly influential reflections on memory, fundamental view of Christ as God's Right Hand and, perhaps most importantly, his mystical spirituality.
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Johannes van Oort is an extra-ordinary professor of Patristics and Early Christianity at the University of Pretoria. He is an emeritus of Utrecht University and Radboud University Nijmegen. His most recent books include Mani and Augustine. Collected Essays on Mani, Manichaeism and Augustine (Brill 2020, reprint 2023) and the edited volume Manichaeism and Early Christianity. Selected Papers from the 2019 Pretoria Congress and Consultation (Brill 2021).

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“... [Augustine’s Confessiones. Ten Studies by Johannes van Oort] ist ein detaillierte und jederzeit anregende Exegese wichtiger Passagen eines der meistgelesenen Texte der Christtentumgeschichte und abenländischen Geistesgeschichte insgesamt, die nicht nur zu der Frage ‘Augustin und der Manichäismus’ einen gewichtigen Beitrag leistet, sondern viele gut und allzu gut bekannte Abschnitte aus den Confessiones neu zu lessen lehrt.” Jörg Ulrich, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Winterberg, Theologische Literaturzeitung 150 (2025) 1/2."The focus of Johannes van Oort’s Augustine’s Confessions: Ten Studies, as the introduction states, is the extent to which the Confessions testifies to Augustine’s “profound knowledge of the teachings (and writings!) of his former co-religionists,” the Manichaeans. Through thisvan Oort hopes “to provide a fruitful impetus for a new commentary” on Augustine’s best-known work (xii), an endeavour in which, in my view, he succeeds excellently."Annemaré Kotze, Stellenbosch University, Journal of Early Christian Studies 33 (2025) 351-353."...the collection is a significant scholarly achievement. It challenges prevailing assumptions, calls for close textual attention to Augustine's words, and opens up new understanding of the Confessions." Christina Turner, Catholic University of Leuven, RELIGION & THEOLOGY 32 (2025) 1-3. "On trouvera rassemblées dans ce volume imposant dix études constituant le bilan d’une longue fréquentation de la thématique du manichéisme dans conf. et du rôle prédominant qu’il joua, selon l’A., grand spécialiste en la matière, dans la conversion d’Aug.—une influence jugée supérieure à celle de la philosophie néoplatonicienne. L’érudition qui caractérise l’ouvrage se retrouve dans la spécialisation présidant à l’orchestration d’ensemble. C’est ainsi qu’on trouvera, dans la première partie de l’ouvrage, l’élucidation de points très précis (...) L’autre partie du volume (chapitres 1, 6, 7 et 8 à 10) prend de la hauteur pour embrasser des thématiques aussi majeures pour l’étude de conf. que l’influence des écrits manichéens." Juliette de Dieuleveult, Revue d’Études Augustiniennes et patristiques 70 (2024) 386-387", Van Oort demonstrates the complexity of the Confessions in crystal-clear fashion. His line of thought is consistent and confined to the sections of Augustine’s work that can only be fully understood if the Manichaean context is taken into account. By shedding light on Augustine’s changing intellectual background, Van Oort provides an invaluable service to scholars of early Christianity." Jochen Schultheiss, University of Würzburg, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 77 (2026), 1.

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