An interminable work? : the openness of Augustine's "Confessions"
- From opening books to read them, through the continuous effort at opening one's heart to God, to the eventual disclosure of God's mysteries to human beings, Augustine seems to trace an implicit conceptualization of openness in his "Confessions". The words of Matthew 7. 7–8 underlie Augustine's engagement with openness up to the very last sentence of the book, which ends with a sequence of verbs in the passive voice that culminates with the desired manifestation of the divine. The entire endeavour of opening oneself up undertaken in the "Confessions" aims at this final passive openness, which is (always) yet to come as much as human opera are (always) yet to come to completion.
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| Author: | Francesco GiustiORCiD |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-686820 |
| URL: | https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-23/giusti_an-interminable-work.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_02 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-029-9 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-030-5 |
| ISSN: | 2627-731X |
| Parent Title (English): | Openness in Medieval Europe / ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum ; Cultural Inquiry ; 23 |
| Publisher: | ICI Press |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/06/20 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2022/07/06 |
| Tag: | Attunement; Love; Openness; Reading; Work |
| GND Keyword: | Augustinus, Aurelius, Heiliger; Confessiones; Offenheit; Lesen; Interpretation |
| Page Number: | 21 |
| First Page: | 24 |
| Last Page: | 43 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 497191881 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 2 Religion / 23 Christentum, Christliche Theologie / 230 Christentum, Christliche Theologie |
| 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
| 8 Literatur / 87 Lateinische, italische Literaturen / 870 Italische Literaturen; Lateinische Literatur | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 |
