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.

About the Author
Robert J. O'Connell, S. J. was a Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. His has five publications on St. Augustine, as well as several studies of Plato, William James, and Teilhard de Chardin. In 2015 he established the O'Connell established the O'Connell Initiative at Fordham, a forum for intellectual exploration, that brought together scholars of every aspect of capitalism.

Reviews
"Anyone proposing another general field theory of the Confessions will have a major task being both as economical and as comprehensive as O'Connell is." -Church History



Book Information
ISBN 9780823212651
Author Robert J. O'Connell
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint Fordham University Press
Publisher Fordham University Press