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Book Review: IV. Ministry Studies: The Contagious Congregation

Augustine. O'Connell thus contravenes the notion that the later Augustine "baptized" his earlier secular aesthetic. Here O'Connell's appendix on the dating of the De Musica is quite instructive. And secondly, his chapter on the artistry of language, style, and structure in the Confessions contributes greatly to the understanding of how Augustine evisioned both aesthetics and the Christian intelligence. The greatest weakness of the book lies in its final chapter, "A Contemporary Augustinian Aesthetic." Perhaps my expectations were too high, but the aesthetic proposed therein seems less intrinsically Ausustinian than inspired by Augustine. Overall, though, O'Connell's book itself is a display of artistry in critical scholarship—a display of the beautiful and the true.