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Augustine
Conversions and Confessions
- Penguin UK
- by Robin Lane Fox
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Publisher | Penguin UK |
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ISBN | 9780241950753 |
Author(s) | Robin Lane Fox |
Publication date | November 2016 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 196 x 130 mm |
Pages | 627 |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
Description
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 and his gradual return to God. His account of his own eventual conversion is a classic study of anguish, hesitation and what he believes to be God's intervention. It has inspired philosophers, Christian thinkers and monastic followers, but it still leaves readers wondering why exactly Augustine chose to compose a work like none before it.
Augustine