Confessions: v. 1 (The Works of Saint Augustine, a Translation for the 21st Century: Part 1 - Books) - Softcover

Augustine, Maria; Augustine, Edmund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565480848 ISBN 13: 9781565480841

Publisher: New City Press, 2011

Synopsis

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting a life. Books I-IV are concerned with infancy and learning to talk, schooldays, sexual desire and adolescent rebellion, intense friendships and intellectual exploration. Augustine evolves and analyses his past with all the resources of the reading which shaped his mind: Virgil and Cicero, Neoplatonism and the Bible. This volume, which aims to be usable by students who are new to Augustine, alerts readers to the verbal echoes and allusions of Augustine's brilliant and varied Latin, and explains his theological and philosophical questioning of what God is and what it is to be human. The edition is intended for use by students and scholars of Latin literature, theology and Church history.

About this title

Review:

"A whole new generation should fall in love with one of Christendom's greatest works, thanks to Maria Boulding."

About the Author:

Maria Boulding is a Benedictine nun of Stanbrook Abbey in England, and currently lives as a hermit. She is the author of Marked for Life: Prayer in the Easter Christ; The Coming of God; and Gateway to Hope: An Exploration of Failure. She serves on the advisory board for the ASaint Augustine: A Translation for the Twenty-first CenturyA series.

About this edition

• Publisher: New City Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1565480848
• ISBN 13: 9781565480841
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 416