Augustine

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WINNER OF THE WOLFSON PRIZE FOR HISTORY 2015 A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographies Augustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, which continues to delight its many admirers. In it he writes about his infancy and his schooling in the classics in late Roman North Africa, his remarkable mother, his sexual sins ('Give me chastity, but not yet,' he famously prayed), his time in an outlawed heretical sect, his worldly career and friendships and his gradual return to God. His account of his own eventual conversion is a classic study of anguish, hesitation and what he believes to be God's intervention. It has inspired philosophers, Christian thinkers and monastic followers, but it still leaves readers wondering why exactly Augustine chose to compose a work like none before it. Robin Lane Fox follows Augustine on a brilliantly described journey, combining the latest scholarship with recently found letters and sermons by Augustine himself to give a portrait of his subject which is subtly different from older biographies. Augustine's heretical years as a Manichaean, his relation to non-Christian philosophy, his mystical aspirations and the nature of his conversion are among the aspects of his life which stand out in a sharper light. For the first time Lane Fox compares him with two contemporaries, an older pagan and a younger Christian, each of whom also wrote about themselves and who illumine Augustine's life and writings by their different choices. More than a decade passed between Augustine's conversion and his beginning the Confessions. Lane Fox argues that the Confessions and their thinking were the results of a long gestation over these years, not a sudden change of perspective, but that they were then written as a single swift composition and that its final books are a coherent consummation of its scriptural meditation and personal biography. This exceptional study reminds us why we are so excited and so moved by Augustine's story.

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Augustine

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A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographiesaugustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most he is the author of an intimate masterpiece the confessions which continues to delight its many a Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, maandag in huis .. MEER INFO

Augustine of Hippo

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Features an account of saint augustine s life and teaching this classic biography was first published forty five years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of saint augustine s life and teaching Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, maandag in huis .. MEER INFO

WC Confessions

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In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of augustine s colourful early life are conveyed to the english reader with accuracy and art augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive his rare ascent from a humble algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of h Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, dinsdag in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 november 2015

Aantal pagina's: 672

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Robin Lane Fox

Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Books Ltd

Editie: 1

Product breedte: 153 mm

Product hoogte: 60 mm

Product lengte: 234 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 166 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 48 mm

Verpakking lengte: 242 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 1181 g

EAN: 9781846144004

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