The Confessions: Saint Augustine of Hippo (Ignatius Critical Editions) - Softcover

Saint Augustine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1586176838 ISBN 13: 9781586176839

Publisher: Ignatius Press, 2012

Synopsis

The Confessions of Saint Augustine is considered one of the greatest Christian classics of all time. It is an extended poetic, passionate, intimate prayer that Augustine wrote as an autobiography sometime after his conversion, to confess his sins and proclaim God's goodness. Just as his first hearers were captivated by his powerful conversion story, so also have many millions been over the following sixteen centuries. His experience of God speaks to us across time with little need of transpositions.This acclaimed new translation by Sister Maria Boulding, O.S.B., masterfully captures his experience, and is written in an elegant and flowing style. Her beautiful contemporary translation of the ancient Confessions makes the classic work more accessible to modern readers. Her translation combines the linguistic accuracy demanded by 4th-century Latin with the poetic power aimed at by Augustine, not as discernable in previous translations.

About this title

About the Author:

Fr. David Vincent Meconi, S.J., a professor of theology at Saint Louis University, is the editor of Homiletic and Pastoral Review. He has published widely in early Church theology and broader Catholic issues, most recently the Annotated Confessions of Saint Augustine, and The One Christ: St. Augustine's Theology of Deification.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1586176838
• ISBN 13: 9781586176839
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 522
• Editor: David Vincent Meconi