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by: Garry Wills
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 270.2092
EAN: 9780670033522
ISBN: 0670033529
Label: Viking Adult
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: November 18, 2004
Publisher: Viking Adult
Release Date: November 18, 2004
Sales Rank: 743904
Studio: Viking Adult
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As relevant today as it was when it was originally written sixteen hundred years ago, Augustine’s Confessiones continues to influence contemporary religion, language, and thought. Reading with fresh, keen eyes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills has brought his superb gifts of analysis and insight to bear on this classic of Western tradition in a series of ambitious and critically acclaimed translations and interpretations. In Saint Augustine’s Conversion, Augustine’s story draws to its dramatic conclusion in what Wills calls the “hinge” chapter of the bishop’s confessional opus. With an illuminating introduction and extensive notes throughout, Wills provides a richly rewarding and inventive interpretation of Augustine’s seminal work for a new generation of readers.
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Rating: - This little book packs a punch
Wonderfully concise, but still mangaged to have the fell of a broad, more in-depth biography. Highlights Augustine's intellectual development in the context of his chronological movements. Some amusing debunking of Augustine's supposed mental infatuation with sex. Wills does an excellent job of painting an Augusine who's quite gracious and liberal (e.g., with the Donatists and those struggling with sexual sin) and also quite rigid and inflexible (with any kind of dishonesty or deception, especially ... Read More
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