... of the signifying power of the miraculous in the early saint's writings. Through the dialogic coupling of Rosenzweig and Augustine, the chapter notes a certain temporal excess in the latter's City of God. It considers Augustine's often surprising emphasis on the corporeal, which corresponds...

..., the mystical body of Christ. This chapter focuses on the temporal dimension of the Augustinian model, thus relating the question of politics to that of “finitude”. It examines the specific ways in which Augustine's The Confessions and The City of God address transience...

...The Introduction orients the reader to the neighborhood of Flushing and presents the main themes and argument of the book in addition to relevant theoretical, historiographical, and methodological questions and a chapter outline. St. Augustine’s City of God is recycled in the title...

...In Saint Augustine's texts, bodies consistently evade wholeness, produce excess, affirm, and negate—and approach a God who likewise does all of these things. City of God describes several modes of what we might call corporeal excess—and in so doing, not only tends to textual...