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Augustine's Confessions: a biography
by Wills, Garry
fromLives of Great Religious Books
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Type: Book
The book's birth -- The book's genre -- The book's African days -- The book's Ambrose -- The book's "conversion"--The book's baptismal days -- The book's culmination -- The book's afterlife : early reception, later neglect.
"This book examines Augustine's intellectual conversion from Platonism to Christianity, as described at Confessions 7.9.13-21.27. It is widely assumed that this occurred in the summer of 386, shortly before Augustine's volitional conversion in the garden at Milan. Brian Dobell a…
