THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE.

SAINT AUGUSTINE. Translated by Rex Warner.

ISBN 10: 0451527801 / ISBN 13: 9780451527806

Published by Signet Classics, 2001

About this Item

Reprint. Paperback. The classic autobiography of the man who journeyed from sin to sainthood. A vivid contemporary translation by Rex Warner. With a new introduction and afterword by Martin E. Marty. Contents: some light browning to edges, otherwise pages generally very good and clean. Cover: light sunning, otherwise very good. A tight copy. 352 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE.
• Publisher: Signet Classics
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451527801
• ISBN 13: 9780451527806
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The classic memoir of a man who journeyed from a life of worldly pleasure, heresy, and sin to one of theological insight and sainthood reveals the spiritual and ascetical life of Saint Augustine as he ruminates on the vital concerns of humankind, the conflict between good and evil, and the quest for God's love. Reprint.

About the Author

Saint Augustine was born on November 13th, A.D. 354, in Tagaste (modern Souk Ahras, Algeria), and died almost seventy-six years later in Hippo Regius—(modern Annaba) on the Mediterranean coast sixty miles away. In the years between, he devoted himself to the mastery of the texts of scripture, becoming a formidable theologian.

Martin Marty, one of today’s most respected theologians, is professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, where the Martin Marty Center has been founded to promote public religion endeavors. His more than fifty books include Modern American Religion. He is a winner of the National Book Award and was the first religion scholar to receive the National Humanities Medal.

Rex Warner was a Professor of the University of Connecticut from 1964 until his retirement in He was born in 1905 and went to Wadham College, Oxford, where he gained a ‘first’ in Classical Moderations, and took a degree in English Literature. He taught in Egypt and England, and was Director of the British Institute, Athens, from 1945 to 1947. He has written poems, novels and critical essays, has worked on films and broadcasting, and has translated many works, of which Xenophon’s History of My Time and The Persian Expedition, Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War, and Plutarch’s Lives (under the title Fall of the Roman Republic) and Moral Essays have been published in Penguin Classics.