On Memory, Marriage, Tears, and Meditation

Margaret R. Miles is Professor Emerita of Historical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA. She is the author of Augustine and the Fundamentalist’s Daughter (2014), The Long Goodbye: Dementia Diaries (2017), and Recollections and Reconsiderations (2018).

• Preface: Reading for LifeAcknowledgmentsTexts and TranslationsList of Abbreviations1. Augustine: Theologian of Feeling2. Augustine’s Coniugium3. Augustine’s Conversions4. Bodies, Pleasures, and the Young Augustine5. Augustine’s Meditation6. Augustine’s TearsReferencesIndex

In this elegant book, Margaret R. Miles reflects on a lifetime of reading Augustine. Examining Augustine's ideas about marriage, conversion, emotion and meditation, and her own varied responses to Augustine over some fifty years, Miles produces a profoundly rich and evocative work on what it means to read "for life."