Bibliograph

Confessions, Saint Augustine ; translated with an introduction and notes by Henry Chadwick

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Confessions, Saint Augustine ; translated with an introduction and notes by Henry Chadwick

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Confessions

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

39235022

Responsibility statement

Saint Augustine ; translated with an introduction and notes by Henry Chadwick

Series statement

Oxford world's classics

Summary

In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colorful 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. - Back cover

Table Of Contents

THE CONFESSIONS -- Early Years -- Adolescence -- Student at Carthage -- Manichee and Astrologer -- Carthage, Rome, and Milan -- Secular Ambitions and Conflicts -- A Neoplatonic Quest -- The Birthpangs of Conversion -- Cassiciacum: to Monica's death -- Memory -- Time and Eternity -- Platonic and Christian Creation -- Finding the Church in Genesis I

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