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Doubleday Image book volume D59
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Saint Augustine is often regardarded as the most influential Christian thinker after Saint Paul, and City of God is his materpiece, a cast synthesis of religious and secular knowledge. It began as a reply to the charge that Christian otherworldiness was causing the decline of the Roman Empire. Augustine produced a wealth of evidence to prove that paganism bore within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Then he proceeded to his larger theme, a...
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Fathers of the church volume 2, etc
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Catholic University of America Press
Pub. Date
1966- c1947
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Great books of the Western world volume 18
Works (English) volume pt. 1, 1
Fathers of the church volume 21
Works (English) volume pt. 1, 1
Fathers of the church volume 21
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Augustine's Confessions might be one of the most profound Christian testimonies ever recorded. Not necessarily because Augustine led an unusual life or faced intriguing circumstances which had to be overcome; because, in reality, the actual events of his life were relatively less than extraordinary. Augustine's Confessions serve as such a spectacular testimony because, besides the fact that it was one of the first of its kind in the literary world,...
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Confessiones (English) volume 2
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Viking
Pub. Date
2002
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In this book, which corresponds to Book Ten of the Confessiones, Augustine pursues his meditation on the self and his intimate testimony to God by moving from his life before baptism to his entrance into a holy life and embrace of the Trinity, the celebration of which will occupy him for the remaining chapters. Augustine contemplates this transition within his own memory, for to him, the "vast treasure store of memory" is where identity is forged,...
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Viking
Pub. Date
2004
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Final volume in a series of translations of Augustine's Confessiones. Discusses the structure of the work, the controversies surrounding who was responsible for Augustine's conversion, and the questions Augustine raises about the nature of conversion itself.
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Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2018]
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"No modern, well-versed literature lover can call an education complete without having read Augustine's Confessions. Irrefutably, from the time it was written in the fourth century AD until today, the Confessions is one of the most important autobiographical texts for Christians and non-Christians alike, having influenced writers from Montaigne to Rousseau, Woolf to Stein. While it sometimes has been read as a merely religious text, or even as a private...
19) Concerning the teacher (De magistro) and on the immortality of the soul (De immortalitate animae)
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Appleton-Century-Crofts
Pub. Date
[c1938]
