Augustine : conversions to confessions
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Published
New York : Basic Books, [2015].
Format
Book
Edition
First US edition.
ISBN
9780465022274, 0465022278
Physical Desc
xiv, 657 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Mashpee Public Library - Adult | B AUG | On Shelf |
Vineyard Haven Public Library - Adult | BIOGRAPHY AUGUSTINE | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Basic Books, [2015].
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780465022274, 0465022278
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 572-610) and index.
Description
"You are great, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is your power and to your wisdom there no limit." So begin the Confessions of St. Augustine: the most intimate and heartfelt prayer ever composed, a cornerstone of Western thought, and a study of anguish, hesitation, and divine intervention that influences Christians--Catholics and Protestants alike--to this day. But the Confessions do not tell the full story of Augustine's tumultuous life and times. Here, the celebrated historian of the ancient world, Robin Lane Fox, follows Augustine of Hippo on his eventful journey to God and the writing of the Confessions. Born in AD 354 to a pagan father and a Christian mother, Augustine spent the first years of his life grappling with the nature of God and the world. He learned about Christianity as a child but was not baptized, choosing instead to immerse himself in his studies--all the while indulging in a life of lust and ambition. In the Confessions, he recounts his schooling in the classics in late-Roman North Africa, his sexual. sins ("Give me chastity, but not yet," he famously prayed), his time in an outlawed heretical sect, his worldly career and friendships; and his' gradual return to God. Drawing on recently discovered letters and sermons, Lane Fox expands on and complicates the story Augustine told about himself. He takes us from Augustine's heretical years as a Manichaean and his study of Neoplatonism to his later conversion. He evokes Augustine's early life with exceptional insight, showing how his quest for knowledge and faith ultimately brought him to Christianity. And he calls on his unparalleled knowledge of antiquity to bring Augustine's world to bustling life. This is an authoritative portrait of this colossal figure at his most thoughtful, venerable, and profound. --Adapted from book jacket.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Lane Fox, R. (2015). Augustine: conversions to confessions (First US edition.). Basic Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lane Fox, Robin, 1946-. 2015. Augustine: Conversions to Confessions. Basic Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lane Fox, Robin, 1946-. Augustine: Conversions to Confessions Basic Books, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Lane Fox, Robin. Augustine: Conversions to Confessions First US edition., Basic Books, 2015.
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