Religions have developed competing accounts of human interiority as a place of restlessness, mystery or divine encounter. The biblical texts variously describe God as indwelling our interiority at a depth which exceeds our own perception or rational faculties. Augustine, in Confessions III, xvi describes God’s presence to us as more real and intimate than our own self-consciousness – as intimior intimo meo. At the same time, he envisions human interiority as a place deeply marked by disorder and conflict due to sin, finitude, and death.This panel will instantiate the aims of Augustinian Resemblances, a nascent project on Augustine’s ecclesial reception at the University of Oxford, by exploring the tension between interior intimacy with the divine and the threat of disorder at our heart. Selected papers will discuss how different religious experiences have grappled with human interiority as a place of contradiction as much as a sacral space of encounter with the supernatural. Priority will be given to papers which explore the Augustinian tradition as well as to historical, sociological, and theological accounts of divine indwelling – such as conversion narratives, revelation and prophecy, mysticism, and their effect on ordering human affectivity."Session 1Chair: Marie-Ange Rakotoniaina (Université catholique de l’Ouest, Angers)Speakers:Beatrice V. Ang (University of Edinburgh / Biblical Seminary of the Philippines / Asia Graduate School of Theology), Interiority and Disorder in The Passion of Perpetua and FelicityDavid Bennett (University of Oxford), ‘Take away death and my flesh will be forever my friend’: Understanding Interior Disorder, Resurrection, and Befriending our Bodies through Augustine’s Ordo Amoris in Sermon 155Cody Brown (University of St Andrews), Rest: Divine and HumanMiglė Miliūnaitė (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute), Musical and Verbal Expression in Augustine’s Confessions and the Expositions of the PsalmsSession 2Chair: Marie-Ange Rakotoniaina (Université catholique de l’Ouest, Angers)Speakers:Sarah Faggioli (Villanova University), Contrasting Conversion Narratives in Augustine and Petrarch: Searching for the Divine through FriendshipAlberto Garzoni (University of Oxford), An Inner Longing for Harmony: Augustine and Pickstock on Liturgical Voices, Self-Gift, and PeaceBen Myers (Alphacrucis University College), Interior Divine Agency in the Poetry of George HerbertBeshoy Tawadrous (Australian Catholic University / KU Leuven), God’s Place and the Experience of Sin: Augustine in Jean-Luc Marion and Rowan WilliamsFinal DiscussionWrap-up: Marie-Ange Rakotoniaina (Université catholique de l’Ouest, Angers) Q&A