Description |
1 online resource (vii, 166 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Lives of great religious books
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Lives of great religious books.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
The book's birth -- The book's genre -- The book's African days -- The book's Ambrose -- The book's "conversion" -- The book's baptismal days -- The book's culmination -- The book's afterlife : early reception, later neglect. |
Summary |
In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills's biography of Augustine and his translation of the Confessions, this is an unparalleled introduction to one of the most important books in the Christian and Western traditions. Understandably fascinated by the story of Augustine's life, modern readers have largely succumbed to the temptation to read the Confess. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Confessiones.
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Confessiones (Augustine, of Hippo, Saint) |
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Christian saints -- Algeria -- Hippo (Extinct city) -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Christian saints. |
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Algeria -- Hippo (Extinct city) |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Wills, Garry, 1934- Augustine's Confessions. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2011 9780691143576 (DLC) 2010016452 (OCoLC)608687795 |
ISBN |
1400838029 (electronic book) |
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9781400838028 (electronic book) |
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9780691143576 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0691143579 |
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