Augustine
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English
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In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his "Confessions" is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the domination of his sexual nature, his...
Author
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Harvard classics volume 7
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English
Description
This edition of the classic literary work of St. Augustine is translated by Oxford scholar Rex Warner and features a revised bibliography. In this autobiography, St. Augustine describes his journey from sin to sainthood, and examines all of humanity's great concerns including the ethical conflict between good and evil.
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Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
The Confessions of St. Augustine is the collection of St. Augustine's thirteen autobiographical books, each singly known as Confessions. In these books he details his sinful youth, his conversion to Christianity, and the regrets he thereafter lives with of his previous convictions and action. It is an incredibly important work, both as the theological study of his thought processes and development and also as a minute historical account
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Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
x, 299 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this authoritative and engaging new biography, Augustine Thompson, O.P., sifts through the surviving evidence for the life of Francis using modern historical methods. The result is a complex yet sympathetic portrait of the man and the saint.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world--one of the most valuable commodities in the history of global capitalism, the leading source of the world's most popular drug, and perhaps the most widespread word on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick's Coffeeland tells the hidden and surprising story of how this came to be, tracing coffee's five-hundred-year transformation from a mysterious Muslim ritual into an...
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Series
Modern Library giants volume G74
Language
English
Description
Saint Augustine is often regardarded as the most influential Christian thinker after Saint Paul, and City of God is his materpiece, a cast synthesis of religious and secular knowledge. It began as a reply to the charge that Christian otherworldiness was causing the decline of the Roman Empire. Augustine produced a wealth of evidence to prove that paganism bore within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Then he proceeded to his larger theme, a...
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Modern library of the world's best books volume 263
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1949]
Physical Desc
xiv, 338 pages 19 cm.
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English
Description
The autobiography of St. Augustine of Hippo, written in Latin between 397 and 400 C.E. The work outlines his sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. Of the thirteen total books, the first nine are autobiographical and the last four are commentary. He shows sorrow for his sexual sins and writes on the importance of sexual morality. The books were written as prayers to God.
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Series
Russian Research Center studies volume 35
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1959
Physical Desc
xx, 533 p. tables. 25 cm.
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English
20) Never goin' back
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 85 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Never Goin' Back is a rebellious coming of age tale about two young women who have decided to leave their worries behind and go at life full force with each other. Recent high school drop-outs, they find themselves broke and down on their luck. To make a buck, they become waitresses at a scummy local diner. The work may be crushing their souls, but they're saving the money to go on a beach trip together. However, it's a little difficult to save when...
