Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (New Edition, with an Epilogue)

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This classic biography was once first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the usual account of Saint Augustine’s life and teaching. The remarkable discovery recently of various letters and sermons by Augustine has thrown fresh light at the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider a few of his judgments on Augustine, both as the creator of the Confessions and because the elderly bishop preaching and writing within the last years of Roman rule in north Africa. Brown’s reflections at the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered). He also reviews the changes in scholarship about Augustine for the reason that 1960s. A personal in addition to a scholarly fascination infuse the book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed portrait of the bishop of Hippo.
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