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Addressed to an educated general readership, Lancel's authoritative study places St Augustine against the colourful background of the Mediterranean world of antiquity, exploring the major influences, events and competing philosophies which were formative for his thought and theology. Attention is given to the essential features of what became both Catholic and Protestant doctrines, the dotrine of grace in controversy with Pelagius and to Augustine's formidable supporter Julian of Eclanum. This translation invites English-speaking readers to share in Lancel's intimate and sympathetic knowledge of one of the greatest figures in Christian antiquity.
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Lancel's authoritative study places St Augustine against the colourful background of the Mediterranean world of antiquity, exploring the major influences, events and competing philosophies which were formative for his thought and theology.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [537]-546) and indexes.
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This biography restores Augustine is all his complexity and depth. Aimed at an educated general readership, it places him against the colourful background of the Mediterranean world of antiquity, and explores the major influences, events and competing philosophies which were formative for his thought and theology. The book makes available much important new material (and several significant new discoveries in Francophone scholarship) to English-speaking readers, who are invited to share in the author's intimate and sympathetic knowledge of this great figure of Christian antiquity. 'Masterly.' Sir Henry Chadwick