Saint Augustine's Conversion

by Garry Wills and Augustine of Hippo

Book Overview

As relevant today as it was when it was originally written sixteen hundred years ago, Augustine s Confessiones continues to influence contemporary religion, language, and thought. Reading with fresh, keen eyes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills has brought his superb gifts of analysis and insight to bear on this classic of Western tradition in a series of ambitious and critically acclaimed translations and interpretations. In Saint Augustine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670033529
• ISBN13: 9780670033522
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

This little book packs a punch

Wonderfully concise, but still mangaged to have the fell of a broad, more in-depth biography. Highlights Augustine's intellectual development in the context of his chronological movements. Some amusing debunking of Augustine's supposed mental infatuation with sex. Wills does an excellent job of painting an Augusine who's quite gracious and liberal (e.g., with the Donatists and those struggling with sexual sin) and also quite rigid and inflexible (with any kind of dishonesty or deception, especially done in service to God). The author also explain well Augustine's love-centered ethical thought. It was nice to be reminded that the Bishop of Hippo was one of history's most impressive intellectual giants. It's delightful that such a mind was subdued to and used of the Lord in such influential ways.