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- Author: Garry Wills
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- ISBN-10: 0143035983
- ISBN-13: 9780143035985
- Format: 12.8 x 17.9 x 1.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills brings the same fresh scholarship, lively prose, and critical appreciation that characterize his well-known books on religion and American history to this outstanding biography of one of the most influential Christian philosophers.
Saint Augustine follows its subject from his youth in fourth-century Africa to his conversion and subsequent development as a theologian. It challenges the widely held misconceptions about Augustine's sexual excesses and shows how, in embracing classical philosophy, Augustine managed to enlist "pagan authors" in the defense of Christianity. The result is a biography that makes a spiritual ancestor feel like our contemporary.
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- Author: Garry Wills
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- ISBN-10: 0143035983
- ISBN-13: 9780143035985
- Format: 12.8 x 17.9 x 1.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills brings the same fresh scholarship, lively prose, and critical appreciation that characterize his well-known books on religion and American history to this outstanding biography of one of the most influential Christian philosophers.
Saint Augustine follows its subject from his youth in fourth-century Africa to his conversion and subsequent development as a theologian. It challenges the widely held misconceptions about Augustine's sexual excesses and shows how, in embracing classical philosophy, Augustine managed to enlist "pagan authors" in the defense of Christianity. The result is a biography that makes a spiritual ancestor feel like our contemporary.
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