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Saint Augustine (Penguin Lives Biographies)by Garry Wills
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills brings the same fresh scholarship, lively prose, and critical appreciation that characterize his well-known books on religion and American history to this outstanding biography of one of the most influential Christian philosophers. Saint Augustine follows its subject from his youth in fourth-century Africa to his conversion and subsequent development as a theologian. It challenges the widely held misconceptions about Augustine’s sexual excesses and shows how, in embracing classical philosophy, Augustine managed to enlist “pagan authors” in the defense of Christianity. The result is a biography that makes a spiritual ancestor feel like our contemporary. Synopsis:With the keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker, whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrine of mind and body, wisdom, and God.
About the AuthorGarry Wills has translated four volumes of Saint Augustin‛s Confessions (Childhood, Memory, Sin, and Conversion), and is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Why I Am a Catholic and Papal Sin as well as the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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