Author

Publication

1999 - Viking, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

38,000 words, Guess

Page Count

152 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing43984
  • Goodreads990243

Classifications

  • DDC270.2/092
  • LCCBR1720.A9 W55 1999

Description

"For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrines of mind and body, wisdom and God."--BOOK JACKET. "Saint Augustine explores both the great ruminator on the human condition and the everyday man who set pen to parchment. It challenges many misconceptions - among them the myth of his early sexual excesses. Garry Wills's Saint Augustine illuminates both the man and the age with the eloquent economy that will introduce to a new generation of readers this once popular genre."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • A Penguin life

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