Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Augustine of Hippo A new expanded edition of Peter Brown's classic study of the life, times and ever-changing thought of one of the founders of Latin Christianity, Augustine of Hippo.
Full description- Publisher: University of California Press
- Published: 24 November 2000
- Format: Paperback 576 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Biography: Religious & Spiritual | Christian Leaders & Leadership
- ISBN 13: 9780520227576 ISBN 10: 0520227573
- Sales rank: 66,757
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Full description for Augustine of Hippo
This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery recently of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine has thrown fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of the Confessions and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in north Africa. Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered). He also reviews the changes in scholarship about Augustine since the 1960s. A personal as well as a scholarly fascination infuse the book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed portrait of the bishop of Hippo.
