Saint Augustine
A Life
$47.47
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
30 August 2005
Summary
Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills brings the same fresh scholarship, lively prose, and critical appreciation that characterize his well-known books on religion and American history to this outstanding biography of one of the most influential Christian philosophers.Saint Augustine follows its subject from his youth in fourth-century Africa to his conversion and subsequent development as a theologian. It challenges the widely held misconceptions about Augustine’s sexual excesses and shows how, in embracing classical philosophy, Augustine managed to enlist “pagan authors” in the defense of Christianity. The result is a biography that makes a spiritual ancestor feel like our contemporary.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143035985 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143035983 |
| Author: | Garry Wills |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | The Penguin Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 30 August 2005 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 130mm x 180mm |
| Series: | Penguin Lives Biographies (Hardcover) |
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Critics Review
The writing is exceptional throughout—rich with funny and surprising detail. ( Chicago Tribune ) A swift and invigorating read. ( The Cleveland Plain Dealer )
“Less the history of a man than the progress of a frank, dynamic, jazzy and fiercely serious mind … The writing is exceptional throughout– rich and surprising with detail.”
–Chicago Tribune
“Seldom has this long-familiar figure … emerged so fresh and challenging from under so masterful a hand.”
–The New York Review of Books
“A brilliant biography … Garry Will’s agile mind matches the agility of St. Augustine’s. He presents his subject with candor and with empathy.”
–The New York Times Book Review
Garry Wills
Garry Willsis a historian and the author of theNew York TimesbestsellersWhat Jesus Meant,Papal Sin,Why I Am a Catholic, andWhy Priests?,among others. A frequent contributor totheNew York Review of Booksand other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois
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