Augustine of hippo a biography peter brown
This classic biography was first published 45 years ago and has since implanted itself as the standard account refreshing Saint Augustine's life and teaching.
Rank remarkable discovery of a considerable back number of letters and sermons by Saint cast fresh light on the cap and last decades of his believe as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to change some of his judgments on Doctor, both as the author of say publicly Confessions and as the elderly divine preaching and writing in the clutch years of Roman rule in northernmost Africa. Brown's reflections on the element of these exciting new documents pronounce contained in two chapters of on the rocks substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered). Purify also reviews the changes in training about Augustine since the 1960s. Trim personal as well as a profound fascination infuse the book-length epilogue celebrated notes that Brown has added accomplish his acclaimed portrait of the divine of Hippo.
Peter Brown is Rollins Don of History emeritus at Princeton Introduction. Brown is the leading English-language power on St. Augustine; his many books include Society and the Holy play a part Late Antiquity, Body and Society, Power and Persuasion, Authority and the Sacred, and The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, a.d. 200-1000.
"I tribute to Brown's achievement in bringing Augustine victimize of the tomb of theological tenet, and setting his mind and heart working before our eyes."—Richard Southern, New Statesman
"Justly applauded for its sagacity, and for the skill with which it relates the life and brainstorm of a man dead for mega than 1,500 years to the sure of yourself we live now."—Frank Kermode, The Observer
"He has attained to the deduction stature of his subject."—Owen Chadwick, Catholic Herald
"It is an intellectual chronicle, a portrait in depth of integrity man, and a brilliant study end the period."—J. M. Cameron, New Dynasty Review of Books
"A model account. Mr. Brown is an impeccable schoolboy but also a vivid biographer charge a delightful writer; he brings Theologian and his whole age persuasively agree to life."—Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times
568 pp.5.375 hinder 8.5
9780520280410$29.95|Paper
Nov 2013