Saint Augustine of Hippo An Intellectual Biography |
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| Author:
| Hollingworth, Miles |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4411-7372-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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Augustine was one of the West's first public philosophers. Intellectually brilliant and a gifted writer, he is known primarily as one of the great figures of Christian late antiquity. In this new biography we encounter him through the complexities of his remarkable personality. Miles Hollingworth demonstrates that it was as a personality that he turned against his Age to explore the shocking relevance of one life to God and history. His autobiography, the
Confessions, is held up...
More DescriptionAugustine was one of the West's first public philosophers. Intellectually brilliant and a gifted writer, he is known primarily as one of the great figures of Christian late antiquity. In this new biography we encounter him through the complexities of his remarkable personality. Miles Hollingworth demonstrates that it was as a personality that he turned against his Age to explore the shocking relevance of one life to God and history. His autobiography, the Confessions, is held up by many today as the first truly modern book.