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"Augustine and Modernity is a fresh and challenging addition to current debates about the Augustinian origins of modern subjectivity and the Christian genesis of Western nihilism. It firmly rejects the dominant modern view that the modern Cartesian subject, as an archetype of We…
Augustine's Confessions: a biography
by Wills, Garry
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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.
Augustine's Confessions: a biography
by Wills, Garry
fromLives of Great Religious Books
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Type: Book
" ... 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,…
Augustine's Confessions: a biography
by Wills, Garry
fromLives of Great Religious Books
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Type: Book
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. Followin…
This is a study of how Christians understood the Holy Spirit in the 5th and 6th centuries. Humphries argues that we can see various schools of thought within Christianity in this period but that many of them are occupied with similar questions about how to understand human life …
