St. Augustine's Confessions: The Odyssey of Soul

About this book

When this book was originally published in 1969 it added fuel to a controversy (sparked by the author in a previous work) that continues unabated to the present day.Now available for the first time in a paperback edition it offers a new generation of readers a detailed exposition of the Confessions showing how the Plotinian view of man as a fallen soul is present in this work and furthermore that it is the key to its interpretation.