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Metaphor, Analogy, and the Place of Places

Where Religion and Philosophy Meet

By: Carl G. Vaught

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Metaphor, Analogy, and the Place of Places

Where Religion and Philosophy Meet

By: Carl G. Vaught

Vaught identifies the place where religion and philosophy meet--and he does so in constant conversation with Augustine, Hegel, Heidegger and Jaspers. Vaught argues that both religious and philosophical discourse assume one of four modes: figurative, analytical, systematic, and analogical. Any real innovation occurs by moving from one mode of discourse to another. Vaught also explores the relationship among "space," "time," and "place" as well as "mystery," "power," and "structure." Remarkably, Vaught shows how the category of "place" serves as the intersection of both triads. In the end, "place" is the orientation that guides the discussions of Being and God, where philosophy and religion are joined.

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1932792074

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The Quest for Wholeness

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The Quest for Wholeness

By: Carl G. Vaught

This book has been written for the artist, for the theologian, and for the philosopher, each of whom must be concerned with the question, "What does it mean to be human?" But at a deeper level, it is written for any reader who knows what it means to be fragmented, and who is willing to undertake a quest for wholeness in experiential and reflective terms." — from the Preface The Quest for Wholeness is a philosophic odyssey into humankind's feelings of fragmentation, and the search for unity born of those feelings. It blends the concreteness of art and religion with the discipline of philosophy to illuminate those places in experience and reflection where fragmentation is encountered and the meaning of wholeness is first discovered. Carl Vaught discusses the problems of fragmentation and unity, beginning with the aesthetic concreteness represented by the quest in Herman Melville's Moby Dick; moving through the religious dimension represented by the biblical stories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and Moses; passing on to the reflective discourse in Plato's Euthyphro; and ending in a confrontation with Hegel that unites the concrete particularity of religious and communal life with the dialectic of Socrates' normative reasoning. This book is written with the conviction that the professional philosopher should not address a merely professional audience, but the larger world as well, and that in the end he must come to terms with himself and with the most pressing questions that confront the human spirit.

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The Journey toward God in Augustine's Confessions

Books I-VI

By: Carl G. Vaught

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The Journey toward God in Augustine's Confessions

Books I-VI

By: Carl G. Vaught

This detailed discussion of Augustine's journey toward God, as it is described in the first six books of the Confessions, begins with infancy, moves through childhood and adolescence, and culminates in youthful maturity. In the first stage, Augustine deals with the problems of original innocence and sin; in the second, he addresses a pear-stealing episode that recapitulates the theft of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden and confronts the problem of sexuality with which he wrestles until his conversion; and in the third, he turns toward philosophy, only to be captivated successively by dualism, skepticism, and Catholicism. Augustine's journey exhibits temporal, spatial, and eternal dimensions and combines his head and his heart in equal proportions. Vaught shows that the Confessions should be interpreted as an attempt to address the person as a whole rather than through our intellectual or volitional dimensions exclusively. The passion with which Augustine describes the end of his journey is reflected best in a sentence found in the opening chapter of the text—"You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you." Interpreting this statement, Carl G. Vaught presents a more emphatically Christian Augustine than is usually found in contemporary scholarship. Refusing to view Augustine in an exclusively Neoplatonic framework, Vaught holds that Augustine baptizes Plotinus just as successfully as Aquinas baptizes Aristotle. It cannot be denied that Ancient philosophy influences Augustine decisively. Nevertheless, he holds the experiential and the theoretical dimensions of his journey toward God together as a distinctive expression of the Christian tradition.

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Encounters with God in Augustine's Confessions

Books VII-IX

By: Carl G. Vaught

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Encounters with God in Augustine's Confessions

Books VII-IX

By: Carl G. Vaught

This book continues Carl G. Vaught's thoroughgoing reinterpretation of Augustine's Confessions—one that rejects the view that Augustine is simply a Neoplatonist and argues that he is also a definitively Christian thinker. As a companion volume to the earlier Journey toward God in Augustine's Confessions: Books I–VI, it can be read in sequence with or independently of it. This work covers the middle portion of the Confessions, Books VII–IX. Opening in Augustine's youthful maturity, Books VII–IX focus on the three pivotal experiences that transform his life: the Neoplatonic vision that causes him to abandon materialism; his conversion to Christianity that leads him beyond Neoplatonism to a Christian attitude toward the world and his place in it; and the mystical experience he shares with his mother a few days before her death, which points to the importance of the Christian community. Vaught argues that time, space, and eternity intersect to provide a framework in which these three experiences occur and which give Augustine a three-fold access to God.

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0791484998

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The Sermon on the Mount

A Theological Investigation

By: Carl G. Vaught

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A Theological Investigation

By: Carl G. Vaught

Annotation. A theological attempt to explore some of the ways in which perfection can be achieved.

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Access to God in Augustine's Confessions

Books X-XIII

By: Carl G. Vaught

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Access to God in Augustine's Confessions

Books X-XIII

By: Carl G. Vaught

This is the final volume in Carl G. Vaught's groundbreaking trilogy reappraising Augustine's Confessions, a cornerstone of Western philosophy and one of the most influential works in the Christian tradition. Vaught offers a new interpretation of the philosopher as less Neoplatonic and more distinctively Christian than most interpreters have thought. In this book, he focuses on the most philosophical section of the Confessions and on how it relates to the previous, more autobiographical sections. A companion to the previous two volumes, which dealt with Books I–IX, this book can be read either in sequence with or independently of the others. Books X–XIII of the Confessions begin after Augustine has become Bishop of Hippo and they are separated by more than ten years from the episodes recorded in the previous nine books of the text. This establishes the narrative in the present and speaks to the "believing sons of men." Augustine explores how memory, time, and creation make the journey toward God and the encounter with God possible. Vaught analyzes these conditions in order to unlock Augustine's solutions to familiar philosophical and theological problems. He also tackles the frequently discussed problem of the alleged disconnection between the earlier books and the last four books by showing how Augustine binds experience and reflection together.

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The Sermon on the Mount

A Theological Investigation

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A Theological Investigation

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Annotation. A theological attempt to explore some of the ways in which perfection can be achieved.

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The Quest for Wholeness

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Encounters with God in Augustine's Confessions

Books VII-IX

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Access to God in Augustine's Confessions

Books X-XIII

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The Journey toward God in Augustine's Confessions

Books I-VI

By: Carl G. Vaught

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Books I-VI

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Metaphor, Analogy, and the Place of Places

Metaphor, Analogy, and the Place of Places

The Quest for Wholeness

The Quest for Wholeness

The Journey toward God in Augustine's Confessions

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Encounters with God in Augustine's Confessions

Encounters with God in Augustine's Confessions

The Sermon on the Mount

The Sermon on the Mount

Access to God in Augustine's Confessions

Access to God in Augustine's Confessions

The Sermon on the Mount

The Sermon on the Mount

The Quest for Wholeness

The Quest for Wholeness

Encounters with God in Augustine's Confessions

Encounters with God in Augustine's Confessions

Access to God in Augustine's Confessions

Access to God in Augustine's Confessions

The Journey toward God in Augustine's Confessions

The Journey toward God in Augustine's Confessions

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