Memory, language, and the making of truth: towards an hermeneutic of Augustine's conversion narrative

For over a century modern scholars have passionately debated whether Augustine’s conversion narrative from Confessions 8 is an accurate description of what ‘has really happened’ in 386 in a garden in Milan without reaching so far a consensus. However, long before modern scholars disputed the histori...

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Main Author: Cvetković, Carmen Angela (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Institution [2015]
In: Augustinianum
Year: 2015, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 479-512
RelBib Classification:KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy
Further subjects:B Augustinus, Aurelius Saint (354-430) Confessiones

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