Augustine: Conversions to Confessions
Autor Robin Lane Foxen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 oct 2017
"This
narrative
of
the
first
half
of
Augustine's
life
conjures
the
intellectual
and
social
milieu
of
the
late
Roman
Empire
with
a
Proustian
relish
for
detail."
--New
York
Times
InAugustine,
celebrated
historian
Robin
Lane
Fox
follows
Augustine
of
Hippo
on
his
journey
to
the
writing
of
his
Confessions.
Unbaptized,
Augustine
indulged
in
a
life
of
lust
before
finally
confessing
and
converting.
Lane
Fox
recounts
Augustine's
sexual
sins,
his
time
in
an
outlawed
heretical
sect,
and
his
gradual
return
to
spirituality.
Magisterial
and
beautifully
written,Augustineis
the
authoritative
portrait
of
this
colossal
figure
at
his
most
thoughtful,
vulnerable,
and
profound.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780465093854
ISBN-10: 046509385X
Pagini: 704
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 51 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
ISBN-10: 046509385X
Pagini: 704
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 51 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
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Notă biografică
Robin Lane Foxis a university reader in ancient history and an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. The author of several books, Fox lives in Oxford, England.
Recenzii
Winner
of
the
2016
Wolfson
History
Prize
"One of the most distinguished and prolific living scholars of Late Antiquity ... Lane Fox ... reveals with remarkable enthusiasm and sympathy the spiritual and intellectual drama of his remarkable subject."—Financial Times
"A fanatically well-researched new account of Augustine."—National Review
"Robin Lane Fox has now done [Peter] Brown [author of Augustine of Hippo] one better.... Fox is such a good writer that interest never flags, and you always feel that 'you are there.'"—Mark Lilla, New York Times
"This book interweaves political, military and personal history to describe in detail the first four decades of Augustine's life... Fox explores everything that is known about the great teacher's life and social world, including his various lovers and intellectual partners."—Economist
"Mr. Fox traces with clarity the development of Augustine's thought, but also of his character.... [He] succeeds in offering us a figure whose inner and outer struggles, whose strengths and weaknesses, do somehow reach across the centuries and touch something profoundly human."—Wall Street Journal
"It is a profound understatement to observe that it was appropriate for Robin Lane Fox, at last, to tackle a biography of Augustine."—Financial Times
"Augustine: Conversions to Confessionsis a compelling read.... A page-turner that might last the whole winter long, come spring you'll be all the more enlightened."—Chicago Tribune
"Fox has written anattentive, rich, and compelling book about Augustine which will reward scholarsand edify non-specialists. It will also entertain both."—Catholic World Report
"One of the most distinguished and prolific living scholars of Late Antiquity ... Lane Fox ... reveals with remarkable enthusiasm and sympathy the spiritual and intellectual drama of his remarkable subject."—Financial Times
"A fanatically well-researched new account of Augustine."—National Review
"Robin Lane Fox has now done [Peter] Brown [author of Augustine of Hippo] one better.... Fox is such a good writer that interest never flags, and you always feel that 'you are there.'"—Mark Lilla, New York Times
"This book interweaves political, military and personal history to describe in detail the first four decades of Augustine's life... Fox explores everything that is known about the great teacher's life and social world, including his various lovers and intellectual partners."—Economist
"Mr. Fox traces with clarity the development of Augustine's thought, but also of his character.... [He] succeeds in offering us a figure whose inner and outer struggles, whose strengths and weaknesses, do somehow reach across the centuries and touch something profoundly human."—Wall Street Journal
"It is a profound understatement to observe that it was appropriate for Robin Lane Fox, at last, to tackle a biography of Augustine."—Financial Times
"Augustine: Conversions to Confessionsis a compelling read.... A page-turner that might last the whole winter long, come spring you'll be all the more enlightened."—Chicago Tribune
"Fox has written anattentive, rich, and compelling book about Augustine which will reward scholarsand edify non-specialists. It will also entertain both."—Catholic World Report