Saint Augustine Select Letters - Couverture rigide

Augustine

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674992644 ISBN 13 : 9780674992641

Editeur : LOEB, 1930

Synopsis

Correspondence of a Church Father.

Aurelius Augustine (AD 354–430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Christian wife, Monnica. While studying to become a rhetorician, he plunged into a turmoil of philosophical and psychological doubts, leading him to Manichaeism. In 383 he moved to Rome and then Milan to teach rhetoric. Despite exploring classical philosophical systems, especially skepticism and Neoplatonism, his studies of Paul’s letters with his friend Alypius, and the preaching of Bishop Ambrose, led in 386 to his momentous conversion from mixed beliefs to Christianity. He soon returned to Tagaste and founded a religious community, and in 395 or 396 became bishop of Hippo.

From Augustine’s large output the Loeb Classical Library offers that great autobiography the Confessions (in two volumes); On the City of God (seven volumes), which unfolds God’s action in the progress of the world’s history, and propounds the superiority of Christian beliefs over pagan in adversity; and a selection of Letters which are important for the study of ecclesiastical theologians.

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À propos de l'auteur

James Houston Baxter (1894-1973) was Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of St Andrews.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: LOEB
• Date d'édition: 1930
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674992644
• ISBN 13: 9780674992641
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 592
• Coordonnées du fabricant: MORGAN WALLEN; www.amazon.com; ; 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg