dc.contributor.author | Hatt, Nicholas | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-31T15:45:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-08-31T15:45:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-08-31T15:45:27Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/74194 | |
dc.description.abstract | Augustine’s biography of his mother, Monnica, in Confessions IX.viii.17 to IX.xiii.37 is
the story of her conversion. Augustine presents her biography using the same pattern of
conversion with which he structures his own conversion and the Confessions as a whole.
First identified by Robert Crouse, this pattern is summarised in Augustine’s commentary
on Psalm 145, in which he describes the soul’s conversion as a movement away from carnal
experience to a vision of the intelligible principles by which the soul is able to comprehend
the meaning of those experiences, and finally to a vision of the divine source of the whole
created order which includes the soul’s own being, knowing, and willing: ab exterioribus
ad interiora, ab inferioribus ad superiora. By means of his mother’s conversion, Augustine
achieves the final step necessary for his own conversion. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Monnica | en_US |
dc.subject | Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 | en_US |
dc.subject | Book IX | en_US |
dc.subject | Confessions | en_US |
dc.title | MONNICA’S CONVERSION: A COMMENTARY ON CONFESSIONS IX.VIII.17 – IX.XIII.37 | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2018-08-24 | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of Classics | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Arts | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | n/a | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Eli Diamond | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Eli Diamond | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Peter O'Brien | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Michael Fournier | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Yes | en_US |