Saint Augustine: A Life |
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| Authors: | Wills, Garry |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | BIO018000, REL051000, BIO009000 |
| ISBN: | 9781101200957, Related ISBNs: 0143035983, 0670886106, 0736648224, 0736652108, 0736678387 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 176, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills brings the same fresh scholarship, lively prose, and critical appreciation that characterize his well-known books on religion and American history to this outstanding biography of one of the most influential Christian philosophers.
Saint Augustine follows its subject from his youth in fourth-century Africa to his conversion and subsequent development as a theologian. It challenges the widely held misconceptions about Augustine’s sexual excesses and shows how, in embracing classical philosophy, Augustine managed to enlist “pagan authors” in the defense of Christianity. The result is a biography that makes a spiritual ancestor feel like our contemporary.
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