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City of God, Volume I Books 1-3

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ISBN-10: 0674994523

ISBN-13: 9780674994522

Edition: 1957 (Abridged)

Authors: Augustine, George E. McCracken, St. Augustine

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Augustinus (AD 354-430), son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste in North Africa, and his Christian wife Monica, while studying in Africa to become a rhetorician, plunged into a turmoil of philosophical and psychological doubts in search of truth, joining for a time the Manichaean society. He became a teacher of grammar at Tagaste, and lived much under the influence of his mother and his friend Alypius. About 383 he went to Rome and soon after to Milan as a teacher of rhetoric, being now attracted by the philosophy of the Sceptics and of the Neo-Platonists. His studies of Paul's letters with Alypius and the preaching of Bishop Ambrose led in 386 to his rejection of all sensual habits and to…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1957
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1957
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 4.25" wide x 6.37" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Introduction
Bibliographical
Note City Of God Retractations
Book I