... to music and song in church to be a sin, but he does admit, at several inter-related moments in the Confessions, Book 9, to a deep disquiet about it. The emotions aroused by listening to singing in church unsettle him, and he cannot understand the source of these intense feelings; but when his...

... comedy Confessions The writing of fiction often leads to unexpected outcomes. When its anonymous author conceived Lazarillo de Tormes, he was unaware of the many literary debates that his book would generate. In the first place, there is the question of the genre known today...

... Derrida J otherness Cave T Auster P Duras Lacan J Other the turning points Lejeune P Pontalis J B memory otherness autobiography Confessions Augustine Souvenir, souvenir, que me veux-tu…? Verlaine, ‘Nevermore’ ¹ ‘One is always at home in one's past’, observes Vladimir Nabokov...

...Augustine’s Confessions 2 is revisited, this time in response to Scott MacDonald’s “Petit Larceny, the Beginning of All Sin: Augustine’s Theft of the Pears.” Central to MacDonald’s interpretation are the theses that all sins are cases of preferring lesser goods over greater goods...

...This chapter explores similarities between one’s mental activities while in the theatre and while dreaming. In Confessions 3 Augustine identifies the “paradox of tragedy”: why do we respond emotionally to representations of the fates of persons who we know never existed...

...This chapter addresses Augustine’s solution to the perplexity that plagued him in his earlier years—how can evil exist in a world created by an omniscient, omnipotent, perfectly good God? In Confessions 7 he gives his reasons for rejecting Manichaean dualism. Book 13 emphasizes...

... essay considers whether it is possible to be reformed without commitment to determinism. In the course of his argument he also sets out a libertarian version of Calvinism, which appears to be consistent with the confessions of the Reformed tradition, particularly the Westminster Confession...

...This chapter makes explicit the doctrine of creation which underlies the doctrine of the image of God through the analysis of the De uera religione, the Confessions, and the De Genesi ad litteram and of its difference from the doctrines of Plato...

... in the acquisition of knowledge: one is free not to know, not to want to know, and no one else can do your learning for you. Other texts where Augustine sets out, discusses, and uses this epistemology are discussed: the dialogue De Magistro and the Confessions. 1 1 1–4 10 mag de...

... of texts, and the relation of human to divine knowledge, and with an eye to Augustine's earlier initiatives from Cassiciacum onwards and to the related work of his Confessions, the chapter draws together the main threads of the collective inquiry. It notes that despite whatever partial...

...This chapter examines the Church of Ireland's first independent statement of its theology: the Irish Articles passed in convocation in 1615. The Irish articles linked the Church of Ireland closely to the Church of England, both to its confession and to its prevailing theological consensus in 1615...

...This book explores three topics in the law of evidence which might once have been considered separately but which are now so interwoven that such an approach seems no longer eligible. They are the law relating to confessions, the law concerned with unlawfully or unfairly obtained evidence...

...Judges have been reluctant to articulate what principle or principles lie behind the various rules and discretionary powers governing confessions, unlawfully or unfairly obtained evidence, or the right to silence in the police station. A good example of this reluctance is DPP v. Ping Lin...

...This chapter discusses the core exclusionary rule for confessions. In Section 76(2) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, there are two heads to the exclusionary rule: an oppression head and an unreliability head. For purposes of exposition here, the word ‘voluntariness’ and the expression...

...The rule for confessions and the exclusionary discretion for confessions and other evidence have been discussed in the previous chapters. It is now appropriate to examine a number of ancillary issues, all concerned with or arising out of the law relating to confessions. A rather different problem...

...At various points in this text, it would have been relevant to refer to the possible significance of the various Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights for the interpretation of the English law of confessions, silence, and unlawfully obtained evidence. The law of the Convention...

... Silence, Confessions and Improperly Obtained Evidence. Peter Mirfield. © Oxford University Press 1997. Published 1997 by Oxford University Press. Silence, Confessions and Improperly Obtained Evidence. Peter Mirfield. © Oxford University Press 1997. Published 1997 by Oxford University Press...

...The final two books of Confessions offer an answer to the question of mediation between the temporal and eternal. Unity is considered under the topic of matter, rather than time, and the instance of the ‘heaven of heavens’ suggests a way in which the mutable will can enjoy the stability...

... Conversion Genre Gender Confessions Death Family Masculinity Following his arrest in June 1592 the Jesuit priest and poet Robert Southwell (1561–95) was imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he underwent torture, including the recently adopted practice of hanging by the hands. Sir Robert Cecil, who...

...Focusing on Heidegger’s 1921 seminar on Augustine’s Confessions, this chapter argues that Heidegger initially viewed Augustine as a bulwark against Cartesian metaphysics. This chapter demonstrates that during the early 1920s Heidegger contended that Descartes’ ego cogito...