Saint Augustine
by Wills, Garry
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670886106
- ISBN 13
- 9780670886104
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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Synopsis
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009356
- Title
- Saint Augustine
- Author
- Wills, Garry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670886106
- ISBN 13
- 9780670886104
- Publisher
- Lipper/Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Biography, Christain Saints
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion;
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