Saint Augustine by Garry Wills

Saint Augustine by Garry Wills

For centuries, Augustine of Hippo's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the fresh, keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrines of mind and body, wisdom and God.Saint Augustine explores both the great ruminator on the human condition and the everyday man who set pen to parchment. It challenges many misconceptions - among them those regarding his early sexual excesses. Here, for students, Christians, and voyagers into the new millennium, is a lively and incisive portrait of one who helped to shape our thought.

Garry Wills, who has served on the faculties of Johns Hopkins, Yale and Princeton is now Adjunct Professor of History at Northwestern University. A two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the recipient of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize. He is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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ISBN 13	9780297842811
ISBN 10	0297842811
Title	Saint Augustine
Author	Garry Wills
Series	Weidenfeld Lives S
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	1999-08-12
Number of pages	173
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