Confessions - Couverture souple

Augustine, Saint

 
9780140441147: Confessions
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 014044114X ISBN 13 : 9780140441147
Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2003

Synopsis

'Give me chastity and continence, but not yet'

The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting world-views. The Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recounts how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle to become one of Christianity's most influential thinkers. A remarkably honest spiritual autobiography, the Confessions also addresses fundamental issues of Christian doctrine, and many of the prayers and meditations it includes are still an integral part of the practice of the faith today.

Translated with an Introduction by R. S. PINE-COFFIN

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À propos de l'auteur

St Augustine of Hippo, the great Doctor of the Latin Church, was born at Thagaste in North Africa, in A.D. 354. He was brought up as a Christian but he was soon converted to the Manichean religion. He also came under the influence of Neoplatonism. However, in 387 he renounced all his unorthodox beliefs and was baptised. His surviving works had a great influence on Christian theology and the psychology and political theology of the West.
R.S. Pine-Coffin is a Roman Catholic and was born in 1917.

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Éditeur
Penguin Classics
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
014044114X
ISBN 13 
9780140441147
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
Penguin
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