The Confessions: Works of Saint Augustine, a Translation for the 21st Century: Part 1- Books

Boulding, Maria; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

ISBN 10: 1565480848 / ISBN 13: 9781565480841

Published by New City Pr (edition First Edition), 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Confessions: Works of Saint Augustine, a Translation for the 21st Century: Part 1- Books
• Publisher: New City Pr (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565480848
• ISBN 13: 9781565480841
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fair

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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.

Review

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