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Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting a life. Books I-IV are concerned with infancy and learning to talk, schooldays, sexual desire and adolescent rebellion, intense friendships and intellectual exploration. Augustine evolves and analyses his past with all the resources of the reading which shaped his Virgil and Cicero, Neoplatonism and the Bible. This volume, which aims to be usable by students who are new to Augustine, alerts readers to the verbal echoes and allusions of Augustine's brilliant and varied Latin, and explains his theological and philosophical questioning of what God is and what it is to be human. The edition is intended for use by students and scholars of Latin literature, theology and Church history.
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THE CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE. Translated By F.J. Sheed
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London & NY. 1960. Sheed & Ward / Classics Of Spiritual Writing series, 1972
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black full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. little pull tear at spine top, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. 8th impression. xxiii+290p. religion. history of christianity. memoirs. autobiography. theology. manichaeism. ~ St. Augustine is unique for the combination In one man of intense sexual passion and a mastering passion for intellectual truth. The conflict of these two passions is the subject matter of the story he tells in his Confessions. Outside Scripture it is the most famous of all spiritual books. It is altogether timeless, completely at home in every age; no change of spiritual mood eclipses it. This translation~now in its ninth impression~has not only won universal acclaim for its accuracy and verve, but is "more complete" than most available translations. It contains all the Books I~X, which are Augustine's spiritual autobiography, but it also contains Books XI~XIII, which are a commentary on the first chapter of Genesis and scarcely seem to belong to the story of his conversion at all. Nevertheless, they shed vast light upon questions which had troubled him on his way to conversion, and at the same time provide a profound discussion of the nature of God and of Creation, of time and eternity, of spirit and matter. Seller Inventory # 2202404
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