TY  - CHAP
A1  - Giusti, Francesco
T1  - An interminable work? : the openness of Augustine's "Confessions"
T2  - Openness in Medieval Europe / ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum ; Cultural Inquiry ; 23
N2  - From opening books to read them, through the continuous effort at opening one's heart to God, to the eventual disclosure of God's mysteries to human beings, Augustine seems to trace an implicit conceptualization of openness in his "Confessions". The words of Matthew 7. 7–8 underlie Augustine's engagement with openness up to the very last sentence of the book, which ends with a sequence of verbs in the passive voice that culminates with the desired manifestation of the divine. The entire endeavour of opening oneself up undertaken in the "Confessions" aims at this final passive openness, which is (always) yet to come as much as human opera are (always) yet to come to completion.
KW  - Augustinus, Aurelius, Heiliger
KW  - Confessiones
KW  - Offenheit
KW  - Lesen
KW  - Openness
KW  - Work
KW  - Love
KW  - Reading
KW  - Attunement
KW  - Interpretation
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/68682
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-686820
UR  - https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-23/giusti_an-interminable-work.pdf
SN  - 978-3-96558-029-9
SN  - 978-3-96558-030-5
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 24
EP  - 43
PB  - ICI Press
CY  - Berlin
ER  -