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Saint Augustine
(Hardcover, 1999)
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Author: Garry Wills
In this short biography, Garry Wills stays close to the life and times of the influential Christian ...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0670886106
ISBN-13: 9780670886104
Jun 1999
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
152 pages
Penguin Lives Series
Language: English |
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Synopsis
In this short biography, Garry Wills stays close to the life and times of the influential Christian thinker and explicates relevant passages from his works, with special emphasis on THE CONFESSIONS (which he refers to as THE TESTAMENT).
| Details | | Series: | Penguin Lives Series |
| Size | | Length: | 152 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 10.4 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "A word from his inmost being goes direct to our most guarded self: "My heart's fellow will love in me what You [Lord] tell us is lovable, deplore in me what You tell us is deplorable." (T. 10.5) Yet this man with such modern access to us was considered peripheral in his day, a provincial on the margins of classical culture. He did not even speak Greek, the language of the international intelligentsia."
Industry Reviews
"Garry Wills's agile mind matches the agility of St. Augustine. His Augustine we would like to meet."
New York Times Book Review - John T. Noonan (07/25/1999)
"[Wills's] account of Augustine's search for a faith and a philosophy engages our sympathy."
Rosenstein
"Although Augustine has been dead for well over fifteen centuries, it is unusual for him to be treated with well-informed neutrality. He has retained friends and foes, unlike his forgotten contemporaries, and his legacy remains with us whether we like it or not. Garry Wills is a friend."
Chadwick
"Mr. Wills spends little time on putting Augustine in a wider context of his age or in evaluating his mixed legacy to Christianity....But what he does achieve is an intimate and ultimately persuasive portrait of a man of great spirit with one of the most subtle minds in Western thought."
Economist (11/13/1999)
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