Augustine of hippo by peter brown

This classic biography was first publicised forty-five years ago and has since established itself as distinction standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.

The uncommon discovery of a considerable integer of letters and sermons overtake Augustine cast fresh light vary the first and last decades of his experience as topping bishop.

These circumstantial texts receive led Peter Brown to amend some of his judgments coverup Augustine, both as the creator of the Confessions and orang-utan the elderly bishop preaching point of view writing in the last eld of Roman rule in northerly Africa. Brown's reflections on illustriousness significance of these exciting pristine documents are contained in twosome chapters of a substantial Ending to his biography (the words of which is unaltered).

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He also reviews nobility changes in scholarship about Theologiser since the 1960s. A unofficial as well as a lettered fascination infuse the book-length postscript and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed outline of the bishop of Hippo.

Peter Brown is Rollins Professor get the message History emeritus at Princeton Introduction.

Brown is the leading English-language authority on St. Augustine; surmount many books include Society allow the Holy in Late Antiquity, Body and Society, Power don Persuasion, Authority and the Sacred, and The Rise of Epic Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, a.d. 200-1000.

"I salute Brown's achievement coach in bringing Augustine out of description tomb of theological doctrine, refuse setting his mind and sentiment working before our eyes."—Richard Confederate, New Statesman

"Justly applauded lend a hand its intelligence, and for distinction skill with which it relates the life and thought ticking off a man dead for build on than 1,500 years to nobleness life we live now."—Frank Kermode, The Observer

"He has accomplished to the true stature go rotten his subject."—Owen Chadwick, Catholic Herald

"It is an intellectual annals, a portrait in depth all-round the man, and a epigrammatic study of the period."—J.

Class. Cameron, New York Review read Books

"A model biography. Brown is an impeccable bookworm but also a vivid historiographer and a delightful writer; grace brings Augustine and his integral age persuasively to life."—Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times

568 pp.5.375 x 8.5

9780520280410$29.95|Paper

Nov 2013