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Saint Augustine: A Life

Saint Augustine: A Life - Paperback

by Garry Wills
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Availability:In StockContributor:Garry WillsSeries:Penguin Lives BiographiesAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2005-08-01Pages:176
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143035985ISBN-10:143035983UPC:9780143035985Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ReligionBook Subcategory:Religious, Christianity, PhilosophersBook Topic:HistorySize:7.06 x 5.04 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.3Product ID:SC12R9NQN8
Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.

Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills brings the same fresh scholarship, lively prose, and critical appreciation that characterize his well-known books on religion and American history to this outstanding biography of one of the most influential Christian philosophers.

Saint Augustine follows its subject from his youth in fourth-century Africa to his conversion and subsequent development as a theologian. It challenges the widely held misconceptions about Augustine's sexual excesses and shows how, in embracing classical philosophy, Augustine managed to enlist "pagan authors" in the defense of Christianity. The result is a biography that makes a spiritual ancestor feel like our contemporary.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143035985ISBN-10:143035983UPC:9780143035985Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ReligionBook Subcategory:Religious, Christianity, PhilosophersBook Topic:HistorySize:7.06 x 5.04 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.3Product ID:SC12R9NQN8
Garry Wills is a historian and the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant, Papal Sin, Why I Am a Catholic, and Why Priests?, among others. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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