Saint Augustine (Penguin Lives)

Wills, Garry

ISBN 10: 0670886106 / ISBN 13: 9780670886104

Edité par Viking Pr, 1999

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Synopsis :

Book by Wills Garry

Présentation de l'éditeur: Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.

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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Saint Augustine (Penguin Lives)
Éditeur : Viking Pr
Date d'édition : 1999
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Acceptable