of Hippo Augustine
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This edition of the classic literary work of St. Augustine is translated by Oxford scholar Rex Warner and features a revised bibliography. In this autobiography, St. Augustine describes his journey from sin to sainthood, and examines all of humanity's great concerns including the ethical conflict between good and evil.
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Candid and fascinating, Augustine (who was an avowed hedonist before his sudden conversion) writes about faith with the reckless abandon of a lover. The fourth-century bishop of Hippo in North Africa, Augustine, wrote The confessions, the first true autobiography, to confess his sins and proclaim God's goodness. It has been a standard of spiritual literature ever since. The Confessions is both the account of Augustine's journey to the Christian faith...
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Great books of the Western world volume 16
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc
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[1990]
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English
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Saint Augustine is often regardarded as the most influential Christian thinker after Saint Paul, and City of God is his materpiece, a cast synthesis of religious and secular knowledge. It began as a reply to the charge that Christian otherworldiness was causing the decline of the Roman Empire. Augustine produced a wealth of evidence to prove that paganism bore within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Then he proceeded to his larger theme, a...
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World's classics
Great books of the Western world volume 18
Penguin classics volume L114
Works volume 1, 1
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Great books of the Western world volume 18
Penguin classics volume L114
Works volume 1, 1
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"Augustine's fourth-century spiritual autobiography is not only a major document in the history of Christianity and a classic of Roman Africa, it also marks a vital moment in the history of Western culture. As Augustine recounts his life, he probes the great themes that others were to explore after him - faith, time, truth, identity, and self-knowledge - with a degree of detail unmatched in ancient literature. Illustrated with vivid portraits of friends,...
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Penguin Books
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"St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo, is one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and City of God is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defense of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, it examines the ancient pagan religions of Rome, the arguments of the Greek philosophers and the revelations of the Bible. Pointing the way forward to a citizenship that transcends worldly politics...