Augustine's Confessions: Ten Studies

by Johannes van Oort

This book presents new interpretations of essential and well-known passages from Augustine's Confessions. In ten chapters, Augustinian specialist Johannes van Oort analyzes and explains many essential passages in the work from the background of Augustine's thorough knowledge of Manichaeism. This 'Gnostic' variant of Christianity exerted a great influence on the North African Augustine, as evidenced in his most famous and (arguably) most influential...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900468588X
• ISBN13: 9789004685888
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 268 Pages