![]() ![]() Courcelle, Les Confessions 65: `Les sermons d'Ambroise ont pour effet provisoire de mettre Augustin en un péril plus grand, du point de vue de la foi chrétienne, qu'au temps ou il était manichéen.' In other words, they plunged him headlong ( `précipité trop avidement') into the Platonists and the Christology of Porphyry. Thus Courcelle, Recherches 86-87, marks these pages for the first weeks of June 385. We seem to have reached spring 385, after the seas opened again to allow Monnica to take ship ( BA 13.141n, arguing that his change of view regarding scripture must be dated to 385, leaving winter and spring 386 for reflection). ![]() The density of scriptural allusion here is a mark that an important stage has been reached. State of mind: interior monologue 6.12.21 - 6.13.23.In this regard, measured against the three temptations, the book represents undiluted, though often painful, progress. now show the vanity of such undertakings and the underlying failure of his ambition. The plans for the future that preoccupy A. The first section recounts doctrinal progress under the tutelage of Ambrose (with a reminder of the moral distance that remained to go), while the last section describes in detail the difficult personal choices that remained. treatment of Monnica: the two `digressions', each a conversion story in its own right, bracket A.'s central conversion story-in all three cases an admonitory word (see Brown 32) is decisive in effect. for the first time, to recount the early life of Alypius cf. The central section of the book takes the focus away from A. The Confessions of Saint Augustine, book 6 Book SixĪ.
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