Saint Augustine
by Garry Wills
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- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0965086615
- ISBN 13
- 9780965086615
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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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- Bookseller
- Endless Shores Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 104561
- Title
- Saint Augustine
- Author
- Garry Wills
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0965086615
- ISBN 13
- 9780965086615
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography / Autobiography;
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