Augustine: The Confessions (Landmarks of World Literature) - Softcover

Clark, Gillian

9780521409421: Augustine: The Confessions (Landmarks of World Literature)

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ISBN 10: 052140942X ISBN 13: 9780521409421

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1993

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Augustine's Confessions, written at the end of the fourth century, is a landmark text in the history of European culture. Augustine tells how and why he abandoned a successful career to follow a life of prayer and study, and how he sought for a true understanding of God and the Bible.

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."..a complete and unambiguous success. I have already used it in teaching, with immense relief. It offers reliable guidance to the undergraduate reader of the Confessions in translation and in numerous ways supplements and complements my own specialist commentary. I may be in a special position to be delighted in having a book of the sort that brings an authoritative voice not my own into a class on the Confessions, but others will find it of great use as well....at every point sound, intelligent, and well written." James J. O'Donnell, Speculum

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When Augustine wrote his Confessions in the last years of the fourth century, he was just over forty and had abandoned a successful career for a life of prayer and study. He interpreted his past life as a search for God, in which understanding and commitment had been frustrated by wrong education, mistaken ambition, sexual desire and sinful nature. Some readers are inspired by his brilliance and devotion, others think he misread his own past. This book discusses the transformation of Augustine's own life and of the late Roman world, the structure, style and purpose of the Confessions, and the problems of rhetoric and truth posed by Augustine's account of himself. It concludes with a brief overview of the influence of this landmark text in the history of European culture.

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