Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (New Edition, with an Epilogue)
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (666 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520227573 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Augustine; his many books include Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity (California, 1982), Body and Society (1988), Power and Persuasion (1992), Authority and the Sacred (1995), and The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. Brown is the leading English-language authority on St. Peter Brown is Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University. 200-1000 (1996).
"Augustine the Most Human of Humanists" according to F. S. L'hoir. It is extremely easy to view a Saint in one-dimensional terms of goodness. Peter Brown has penned a multi-faceted portrayal of the human being behind the saintliness. In a biography in which scholarliness does not impede readability, Brown conducts his readers on a fascinating journey from Augustine the Most Human of Humanists F. S. L'hoir It is extremely easy to view a Saint in one-dimensional terms of goodness. Peter Brown has penned a multi-faceted portrayal of the human being behind the saintliness. In a biography in which scholarliness does not impede readability, Brown conducts his readers on a fascinating journey from 4th/5th-century Roman Africa, to Rome, Milan, and back full circle to Roma. th/5th-century Roman Africa, to Rome, Milan, and back full circle to Roma. "Passionate History of Significant Church Father" according to rodboomboom. Written in 1961 while at Oxford, yet here given subsequent "New Directions" from additional historical developments, provides a provocative and captivating read of a most influential Christian, bishop, theologian and writer.Augustine is truly a gem of the church catholic, in a time of transition from one world power to another. Late Rome in Africa is so fascinati. From Manichees to Donatists, the World of Augustine S. Pactor I read the old version, which was fine. Augustine spanned the gap between the classic world and the emerging world of the middle ages. He started life as a Manichee and flirted with neo-platonism before settling down to life as the bishop of Hippo in Roman Africa. His was a very "Roman African" kind of career (a phrase which meant nothing to me before this book).
A personal as well as a scholarly fascination infuse the book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed portrait of the bishop of Hippo.. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of the Confessions and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in north Africa. The remarkable discovery recently of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine has thrown fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. Bro
"A great biography of the greatest father of the church, and an introduction to the intellectual world of late antiquity. A deeply engrossing work of scholarship, recently reissued."--"Washington Post Book World