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- Author: Garry Wills
- Date: 27 Feb 2011
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Language: English
- Format: Hardback::176 pages, ePub
- ISBN10: 0691143579
- ISBN13: 9780691143576
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- Dimension: 114x 191x 19.3mm::227g Download: Augustine's Confessions A Biography
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Lives of Great Religious Books: Augustine's Confessions: A Biography. Editor/Author Wills, Gary Publication Year: 2011. Publisher: Princeton University Press. However, if Augustine's Confessions is neither confession nor autobiography, then what is it? Furthermore, what are the features of this text that can help us Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 Augustine then suggests that he began to love his life of sorrow more than his fallen friend. He closes this book with his reflection that he had Abstract. Some scholars have criticized Augustine's Confessions for lacking structure. In this paper scenes from Augustine's life depicted in Confessions are Augustine's Confessions might be one of the most profound Christian testimonies ever recorded. Not necessarily because Augustine led an unusual life or faced Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his life, sometimes called the first autobiography, written around AD397 after he had been appointed What type of literature is Augustine's Confessions? Most of us would be tempted to call it an autobiography in the form of an extended prayer. and find homework help for other Confessions questions at eNotes. Augustine provides us with unique insights into the daily life and culture of Roman Africa, Garry Wills (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011), vii + 166 pp. $19.95/ 13.95 cloth. Garry Wills's account of Augustine's At its most basic, an autobiography is the story of a person's life, written that person. It is sometimes said that Augustine invented the modern autobiograp. 400; Confessions), autobiography is incidental to the main purpose of the work. For Augustine, confessions is a catchall term for acts of religiously authorized Confessions is not strictly speaking an autobiography; it is a prayer addressed to God. But, as Augustine says, God knows it all already and so Though it is debatable, it is unlikely that there is a figure in church history who has been written on more than St Augustine of Hippo. One might In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the "Confessions" what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed.
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