告白
- 言語:
- 英語
- 状態:
- 完全な作品
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- 著者自身による
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- 良好なテキスト
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この作品を引用
- APAアウグスティヌス. (n.d.). 告白. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/augustine/the-confessions-of-st-augustine
- MLAアウグスティヌス. "告白." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/augustine/the-confessions-of-st-augustine.
- Chicagoアウグスティヌス. 告白. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/augustine/the-confessions-of-st-augustine.
何についての本か
アウグスティヌスが神に向かって語る自らの生涯。カルタゴでの青春、疑いの歳月、ミラノの庭園での回心、そして「時間とは何か」「記憶とは何か」という問い。
背景と歴史
397年から400年ごろ、アウグスティヌスがすでにローマ領アフリカのヒッポ司教だった時期に書かれた。西洋文学最初の偉大な内省の書である。彼以前に、これほどの深さで自らの内面を検分した者も、神に直接語りかける形でそれを書き記した者もいなかった。書中で語られる回心——386年の夏、「取って読め」と歌う子どもの声——は、書かれたもののうち最も影響力のある場面のひとつであり、近代の自伝という文学形式はその存在をこの書に負っている。
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Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality, the witness of his sin, the witness that Thou resistest the proud: yet would man praise Thee; he, but a particle of Thy creation. Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee. Grant me, Lord, to know and understand which is first, to call on Thee or to praise Thee? and, again, to know Thee or to call on Thee? for who can call on Thee, not knowing Thee? for he that knoweth Thee not, may call on Thee as other than Thou art. Or, is it rather, that we call on Thee that we may know Thee? but how shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? or how shall they believe without a preacher? and they that seek the Lord shall praise Him: for they that seek shall find Him, and they that find shall praise Him. I will seek Thee, Lord, by calling on Thee; and will call on Thee, believing in Thee; for to us hast Thou been preached. My faith, Lord, shall call on Thee, which Thou hast given me, wherewith Thou hast inspired me, through the Incarnation of Thy Son, through the ministry of the Preacher. And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain Thee? do then heaven and earth, which Thou hast made, and wherein Thou hast made me, contain Thee? or, because nothing which exists could exist without Thee, doth therefore whatever exists contain Thee?…