Saint Augustine
by Garry Wills
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0297842811
- ISBN 13
- 9780297842811
- Seller
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Fireside Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 602112
- Title
- Saint Augustine
- Author
- Garry Wills
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0297842811
- ISBN 13
- 9780297842811
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999-01-01
- Size
- 7x5x1
- Bookseller catalogs
- RELIGION;
- X weight
- 11 oz
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