Concerning the City of God Against the Pagans (Classics) - Softcover

Bettenson, Henry.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140400222 ISBN 13: 9780140400229

Publisher: Penguin, 1972

Synopsis

li 1097p very thick paperback, a few ink notes to introduction and to back endpaper, blue spine a bit curved and creased but holding well, main text clean

About this title

Review:

The human mind can understand truth only by thinking, as is clear from Augustine. --Saint Thomas Aquinas

About the Author:

St Augustine of Hippo was the great Doctor of the Latin Church. Born in North Africa in AD 354, he was brought up as a Christian and at 16 went to Carthage to finish his education. Until 387, Augustine followed the Manichean religion and founded his own school of rhetoric in Rome. After his baptism, he returned to Africa and lived in the community he formed there until his death in 430. His written output there includes Confessions and City of God, among over 113 books.

Henry Bettenson (1908-1979) (translator) was educated at Bristol University and Oriel College, Oxford. He taught Classics for 25 years at Charterhouse 'Documents of the Christian Church' and 'Early Christian Fathers'.

Dr Gill Evans (introducer) teaches medieval intellectual history, medieval theology and ecumenical theology in the Faculty of History at Cambridge. She has published widely in this area.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0140400222
• ISBN 13: 9780140400229
• Binding: Paperback