Confessions: Saint Augustine (Penguin Pocket Hardbacks) - Hardcover

Augustine, Saint

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ISBN 10: 014139689X ISBN 13: 9780141396897

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2015

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The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle, to become instead a staunch advocate of Christianity and one of its most influential thinkers. A remarkably honest and revealing spiritual autobiography, the Confessions also address fundamental issues of Christian doctrine, and many of the prayers and meditations it includes are still an integral part of the practice of Christianity today.

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St Augustine of Hippo, the great Doctor of the Latin Church, was born at Thagaste in North Africa, in A.D. 354. He was brought up as a Christian but he was soon converted to the Manichean religion. He also came under the influence of Neoplatonism. However, in 387 he renounced all his unorthodox beliefs and was baptised. His surviving works had a great influence on Christian theology and the psychology and political theology of the West.

R.S. Pine-Coffin is a Roman Catholic and was born in 1917.

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Helps you address fundamental issues of Christian doctrine, and many of the prayers and meditations it includes are still an integral part of the practice of Christianity.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 014139689X
• ISBN 13: 9780141396897
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 576
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