TY - BOOK ID - 78139255 TI - The mysticism of Saint Augustine PY - 2005 SN - 1134442726 1280216816 9786610216819 0203018931 9780203018934 9780415288330 0415288339 9780415288323 0415288320 0415288320 0415288339 9781134442676 9781134442713 1134442718 PB - New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Mysticism KW - Church history KW - History KW - Augustine, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78139255 AB - Augustine's vision at Ostia is one of the most influential accounts of mystical experience in the Western tradition, and a subject of persistent interest to Christians, philosophers and historians. This book explores Augustine's account of his experience as set down in the Confessions and considers his mysticism in relation to his classical Platonist philosophy. John Peter Kenney argues that while the Christian contemplative mysticism created by Augustine is in many ways founded on Platonic thought, Platonism ultimately fails Augustine in that it cannot retain the truths that it a ER -