The Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Augustine, Saint

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199537828 ISBN 13: 9780199537822

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2008

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In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art.

Augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive, his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high power at the imperial court of Milan, and his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage as he recovered the faith that his mother had taught him. It was in a Milan garden that Augustine finally achieved the act of will to Christian conversion, which he compared to a lazy man in bed finally deciding it is time to get up and face the day.

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Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Henry Chadwick.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199537828
• ISBN 13: 9780199537822
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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