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Archetypes of conversion: the autobiographies of Augustine..

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This sensitive and imaginative study explores the phenomenon of conversion in three major religious autobiographies: the Confessions of Saint Augustine, Grace Abounding by John Bunyan, and Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain. These three religious figures could hardly be more different, and yet, as Hawkins shows, their conversion narratives are remarkably similar in patterns of theme, figure, and action. This archetypal approach is particularly appropriate to spiritual autobiography, which is less concerned with "self" than with "soul" and which seeks to relate the individual to a divine reality that is universal and timeless.

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Z. HANDIMAN

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922 HAW a

Publisher

Eugene : Wipf & Stock Publ.., 2014

Collation

191p.; 23 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-62564-694-1

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922

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BIOGRAPHY - CHRISTIANS

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