| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 166 pages) |
| Series |
Lives of great religious books |
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Lives of great religious books.
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| Contents |
The book's birth -- The book's genre -- The book's African days -- The book's Ambrose -- The book's "conversion" -- The book's baptismal days -- The book's culmination -- The book's afterlife : early reception, later neglect |
| Summary |
In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills's biography of Augustine and his translation of the Confessions, this is an unparalleled introduction to one of the most important books in the Christian and Western traditions. Understandably fascinated by the story of Augustine's life, modern readers have largely succumbed to the temptation to read the Confess |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Confessiones
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| SUBJECT |
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Confessiones
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Augustinus, Aurelius Heiliger 354-430 Confessiones gnd |
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Augustinus, Aurelius. Confessiones. idszbz |
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Confessiones (Augustine, of Hippo, Saint) fast |
| Subject |
Christian saints -- Algeria -- Hippo (Extinct city) -- Biography -- History and criticism
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RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- General.
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Christian saints
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Confessiones (Augustinus)
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Ontstaansgeschiedenis.
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Algeria -- Hippo (Extinct city)
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1400838029 |
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9781400838028 |
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