Augustine - Conversions to Confessions

Informationen zum Autor Robin Lane Fox is an emeritus fellow at New College, Oxford. He's the author of many books on ancient and classical history, including Augustine, Alexander the Great , and The Classical World , which was named one of the Top Ten Nonfiction Books of 2006 by the Washington Post Book World. He lives in Oxford, England.From a revered scholar of the ancient world, an intimate portrait of the young Saint Augustine, the pagan-born theologian and philosopher whose Confessions transformed Christianity and the Western world Zusammenfassung "This narrative of the first half of Augustine's life conjures the intellectual and social milieu of the late Roman Empire with a Proustian relish for detail." -- New York Times In Augustine , celebrated historian Robin Lane Fox follows Augustine of Hippo on his journey to the writing of his Confessions. Unbaptized, Augustine indulged in a life of lust before finally confessing and converting. Lane Fox recounts Augustine's sexual sins, his time in an outlawed heretical sect, and his gradual return to spirituality. Magisterial and beautifully written, Augustine is the authoritative portrait of this colossal figure at his most thoughtful, vulnerable, and profound.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Fox, Robin Lane Fox, Robin Lane Fox
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780465022274
• ISBN: 978-0-465-02227-4
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 245 mm x 52 mm
• Series: Basic Books
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; RELIGION / Christianity / History, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval