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Finding God: Augustine and Apuleius
HDS 1510

Jointly Offered with: Faculty of Arts & Sciences as LATIN 139

Course Information

Description

This course on imperial and late antique prose authors will examine the religious conversion narratives of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and Augustine’s Confessions. In Apuleius (Met. 11), Lucius converts to Isis, while Augustine narrates his conversion to Christianity (Conf. 6–8). Both are stories of deep religious experience made compelling by their daring literary, rhetorical, and philosophical qualities. We will complement our Latin texts by reading modern and contemporary scholarship on religious experience and the phenomenon of conversion.

Course Notes

Jointly offered with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as LATIN 139.

School Harvard Divinity School
Credits 4
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Course Component Seminar
Instruction Mode In Person
Grading Basis HDS Letter Graded
MTS/ThM Area of Focus Christianity
Religious Thought, Philosophy, and Theology
Arts of Ministry N/A
MDiv Histories, Theologies, and Practices Christianity
Language Course Type Content Language Course
Language Taught Latin
MDiv Scriptural Interpretation N/A
Course Level N/A