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Saint Augustine's Conversion

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ISBN-10: 0670033529

ISBN-13: 9780670033522

Edition: 2004

Authors: Garry Wills

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As relevant today as it was when it was originally written sixteen hundred years ago, Augustines Confessionescontinues 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 Augustines Conversion, Augustines story draws to its dramatic conclusion in what Wills calls the hinge chapter of the bishops confessional opus. With an illuminating introduction and extensive notes throughout, Wills provides a richly rewarding and…    
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Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/18/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Garry Wills, 1934 - Garry Wills was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1934. Wills received a B.A. from St. Louis University in 1957, an M.A. from Xavier University of Cincinnati in 1958, an M.A. (1959) and a Ph.D. (1961) in classics from Yale. Wills was a junior fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies from 1961-62, an associate professor of classics and adjunct professor of humanities at Johns Hopkins University from 1962-80. Wills was the first Washington Irving Professor of Modern American History and Literature at Union College, and was also a Regents Professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara, Silliman Seminarist at Yale, Christian Gauss Lecturer at Princeton, W.W. Cook…    

Key to Brief Citations
Introduction
The Book of Conversions
The Myth of Monnica
The Myth of Ambrose
The Myth of Suddenness
The Myth of Suddenness
The Myth of Suddenness
The Garden
The Testimony, book eight
Searching for help
First conversion story victorinus
Second conversion story
Back to victorinus
Four more converts: pontician�s friends and their wives
The garden
Seventh conversion story
Eighth conversion story
Part iii