Confessions of St. Augustine (Paraclete Living Library)
Book Details
Author(s)
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Publisher
Catholic Book Publishing Corp
ISBN / ASIN
0899421695
ISBN-13
9780899421698
Availability
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Sales Rank
#1,998,113
Marketplace
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Description
When Saint Augustine wrote his Confessions he was facing, and responding to, a growing spread of asceticism in the Roman world.
About the Author
St Augustine of Hippo, the great Doctor of the Latin Church, was born at Thagaste in North Africa, in A.D. 354. He was brought up as a Christian but he was soon converted to the Manichean religion. He also came under the influence of Neoplatonism. However, in 387 he renounced all his unorthodox beliefs and was baptised. His surviving works had a great influence on Christian theology and the psychology and political theology of the West. R.S. Pine-Coffin is a Roman Catholic and was born in 1917.
About the Author
St Augustine of Hippo, the great Doctor of the Latin Church, was born at Thagaste in North Africa, in A.D. 354. He was brought up as a Christian but he was soon converted to the Manichean religion. He also came under the influence of Neoplatonism. However, in 387 he renounced all his unorthodox beliefs and was baptised. His surviving works had a great influence on Christian theology and the psychology and political theology of the West. R.S. Pine-Coffin is a Roman Catholic and was born in 1917.
