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My Book Was Reviewed
The American Academy of Religion has a website for reviews of religion books. I (ignorant moron that I am) didn’t know about the site until I got an email announcing they’d reviewed The Conversion and Therapy of Desire, which I remind you is cheap on Kindle. A classics prof from UT Austin said some nice things:
In this fascinating and meticulously researched study of Augustine’s Cassiciacum dialogues, Mark Boone shows Augustinian scholars a productive way forward for better understanding how these philosophical texts can and should be analyzed both on their own terms and as part of Augustine’s evolving ideas about ancient philosophy and Christian theology. This is very much a book by a philosopher, about philosophy, written for philosophers. Still, its arguments will be easily comprehensible to any non-philosopher with a basic grounding in Augustinian thought. Of particular value to the general Augustinian scholar are the excellent close readings of the individual dialogues in the book’s main chapters….
Boone’s work is a valuable contribution to Augustinian studies, and especially to the study of the Cassiciacum dialogues. It is carefully researched, well-written (though, at times, the signposting of the argument seems overdone), and easy to follow even by a generalist Augustinian scholar…
Full review available here.
Hey, did I mention that this book is cheap on Kindle?
Published in General
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* Chortling Out Loud
@saintaugustine, I am quite certain a book written by you could never be correctly categorized as ‘cheap’, inexpensive perhaps, but never cheap. :-)
Thanks for sharing. It’s in the cart!
Thank you. I’m honored.
Aug,
First, congratulations! I think you have worked very hard on this and you deserve every bit of praise. It is a good choice when people are having trouble relating to Religion to go back to a formative epoch and explore what is now just assumed as doctrine.
I don’t want to get you burned at the stake but I have an idea for you. I have an old friend who teaches philosophy. He wrote a book and teaches a course that answers philosophical questions using three different philosophers. He uses Kant, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. He does this to get the freshman excited and arguing. Better that they have an opinion, wrong or right, than their eyes glaze over and you lose them entirely. I wonder if you could do this with Augustine? Again please don’t get yourself burned at the stake but what if you had Augustine, Pelagius, and Arius answering theological questions. Certainly, that would stir the pot (maybe too much) and get the conversation going.
Again, congratulations and all the best.
Regards,
Jim