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Augustine: Conversions and Confessions
Robin Lane Fox
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Description for Augustine: Conversions and Confessions
Paperback. Num Pages: 672 pages, 16pp colour illustrations. BIC Classification: BGX; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 32. Weight in Grams: 480.
A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographies Augustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, which continues to delight its many admirers. In it he writes about his infancy and his schooling in the classics in late Roman North Africa, his remarkable mother, his sexual sins ('Give me chastity, but not yet,' he famously prayed), his time in an outlawed heretical sect, his worldly career and friendships ... Read more
A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographies Augustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, which continues to delight its many admirers. In it he writes about his infancy and his schooling in the classics in late Roman North Africa, his remarkable mother, his sexual sins ('Give me chastity, but not yet,' he famously prayed), his time in an outlawed heretical sect, his worldly career and friendships ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241950753
SKU
V9780241950753
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About Robin Lane Fox
Robin Lane Fox is Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and was until 2014 Reader in Ancient History in Oxford University. He is the author of Pagans and Christians (1986), The Unauthorised Version (1992) and many books on classical history, including Alexander the Great (1973), The Classical World (2005) and Travelling Heroes (2008), all of which have been widely translated. ... Read more
Reviews for Augustine: Conversions and Confessions
Undoubtedly a watershed in Augustinian studies ... the magisterial and compellingly readable narrative ... makes full and creative use of all the best recent scholarship.
Rowan Williams
New Statesman
Fifty years ago we learned how much more there was to say when Peter Brown published his magnificent life, Augustine of Hippo ... [Lane Fox] has now done ... Read more
Rowan Williams
New Statesman
Fifty years ago we learned how much more there was to say when Peter Brown published his magnificent life, Augustine of Hippo ... [Lane Fox] has now done ... Read more