In this article, I reflect on how music and religion meet in aesthetic experience, and how thinking responds to this encounter. The way of thinking takes the form of an interpretation of key elements in Augustine’s description of his musical experiences in Confessions (Confessiones). This article is not a philological-historical interpretation of Augustine, but an attempt to think with...
Abstract Augustine’s thought is deeply embedded in his religious experiences. He reflects on the encounter with the Divine as an encounter with an (extra)sensory reality. He makes use of Aesthetic categories in order to describe his religious experience. This article presents a way of thinking about the intertwinement of religious education and Aesthetic experience in Augustine’s thought. With...