Saint Augustine
A Life
Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017. 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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-101-20095-7
- EAN: 9781101200957
- Produktnummer: 17990280
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 178 KB
Über den Autor
Garry Wills is a historian and the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant, Papal Sin, Why I Am a Catholic, and Why Priests?, among others. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois
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