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Augustine
  • Published: 3 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241950753
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 672
  • RRP: $49.99
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Augustine

Conversions and Confessions

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5 Nov 2015
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3 Jan 2017
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A major interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographies

'Give me chastity, but not yet', young Augustine famously prayed to God. The Confessions, his masterpiece, is a classic study of anguish, hesitation and what he believes to be God's intervention. It has inspired philosophers, Christian thinkers and monastic followers, but still leaves readers wondering why Augustine chose to compose a work like none before it. Robin Lane Fox follows him on a brilliantly-described journey through his various conversions and their sequels. He combines the latest scholarship with recently-found letters and sermons by Augustine himself to give a portrait of his subject which is subtly different from previous biographies.
  • Published: 3 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241950753
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 672
  • RRP: $49.99
Categories:

About the author

Robin Lane Fox

Robin Lane Fox is Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and taught Ancient History at Oxford University from 1977 to 2014. He is the author of Pagans and Christians (1986), The Unauthorized Version (1992) and many books on classical history, all of which have been widely translated, including Alexander the Great (1973), The Classical World (2005), Travelling Heroes (2008) and Augustine: Conversions to Confessions (2015), which won the Wolfson Prize for History. He has been the gardening correspondent of the Financial Times since 1970.
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Also by Robin Lane Fox

Homer and His Iliad
The Invention of Medicine
Thoughtful Gardening
Travelling Heroes
The Classical World
Pagans and Christians
The Unauthorized Version
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Praise for Augustine

As readable as any historical novel

Anthony Kenny, Literary Review

Explores how a life of casual sin might usefully cede into an anguished state of divine contemplation . . . a comprehensive book likely to become the standard work on Augustine's Confessions in the future

Alexander Larman, Guardian