Title:
Augustine's Confessions : a biography
Author:
Wills, Garry, 1934-
ISBN:
9781400838028
Publication Information:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vii, 166 pages).
Series:
Lives of great religious books
Lives of great religious books.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic Access:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7t6zgCopies:
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