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2) Confessions
Author
Language
English
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Description
Written shortly after he became Biship of Hippo, "Confessions" highlights Augustine's childhood in Numidia and his riotous youth and early manhood in Carthage, Rome, and Milan. It also chronicles his continuing struggle with sin and his efforts to find satisfaction in Manichaenism and Neoplatonism. Particularly poignant are his mother's tireless efforts to rescue him from self-destruction and his dramatic conversion to the Christian faith at age 32....
Author
Series
Library of Christian classics volume 6
Publisher
Westminster
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Author
Series
Confessiones volume 8
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A third volume in a series of translations from Saint Augustine's "Confessiones" contends that Augustine sought to understand humanity's capacity for evil despite its good nature, analyzing three founding biblical sins.
Author
Series
Publisher
Casa Promesa
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
Aquí esta Confesiones de San Agustín, un libro importante y poderoso abreviado y actualizado para el lector moderno. Escrito hace unos 1,600 años, este clásicos cristiano sigue hablando hoy, abordando las cuestioes que preocupan al corazón humano como lo hacían en los siglos cuarto y quinto. Confesiones habla del arrepentimiento de Agustín de su propia vida malvada--y su alegría por la gracia que Dios le mostró. Es una poderosa introducción...
9) Later works
Author
Series
Library of Christian classics volume 8
Publisher
Westminster
Pub. Date
1955.
Language
English
15) Saint Augustine
Author
Series
Publisher
Lipper/Viking
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
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...
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