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Augustine was one of the West's first public philosophers. Intellectually brilliant and a gifted writer, he is known primarily as one of the great figures of Christian late antiquity. In this new biography we encounter him through the complexities of his remarkable personality. Miles Hollingworth demonstrates that it was as a personality that he turned against his Age to explore the shocking relevance of one life to God and history. His autobiography, the Confessions, is held up by many today as the first truly modern book.
Published | 06 Jun 2013 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 336 |
ISBN | 9781441125668 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Continuum |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
This is a book whose style and feel are really worthy of Augustine himself – humane and probing, full of telling metaphor and seriousness about the strangeness of human experience. It is capable of doing for a new generation a great deal of what Peter Brown's epochal biography did half a century ago.
Rowan Williams
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