Augustine's Confessions : a biography / Garry Wills.
Augustine's Confessions : a biography / Garry Wills.
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Publisher
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011.
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N270.2092/15
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English
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Physical content
vii, 166 p. ; 20 cm.
Contents
The book's birth -- The book's genre -- The book's African days -- The book's Ambrose -- The book's "conversion" -- The book's baptismal days -- The book's hinge -- The book's culmination -- The book's afterlife : early reception, later neglect.
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Publisher
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011.
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
c2011.
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Summary
This tells the story of the Confessions - what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills' biography of Augustine and his translation of the Confessions , this is an unparalleled introduction to one of the most important book...
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Augustine's Confessions : a biography / Garry Wills.
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Lives of great religious books.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155) and index.
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c2011.
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N270.2092/15
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74Vvvmldmv6y
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ISBN
0691143579 (hbk.)
9780691143576 (hbk.)
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270.2092
MMS ID
991007416249702626
