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James O'Donnell has written a magnificent new biography which presents Augustine outside his own 'spin', that of his autobiographical Confessions, a bestseller since it was written. He tells the story from the vantage point of Hippo, the city in what is now Algeria, where Augustine spent almost 40 years as priest and bishop. By telling the story that way, O'Donnell is able to escape from the Confessions: the post-Confessions years are the ones in which Augustine (354-430) really made his name. The story is extraordinarily rich in vivid primary material about the crises and doings of his time, the late Roman Empire. Rich men converting to Chritianity to get ahead, priests covering up their sexual and financial peccadilloes, gangs of desperadoes invading churches or lying in ambush on country roads, generals playing coldly calculated games of geopolitics - these are figures who stand out in Augustine's world against a background of a battle to the death over the future of Christianity. This is one of the most remarkable biographies to be written about any figure from the ancient world.

About the Author :
James J. O'Donnell, Provost of Georgetown University, Washington, is one of the world's experts on Augustine and among much else editor of the definitive Oxford Latin edition of the Confessions.

Review :
A critical biography which will be the starting point for a complete re-evaluation of Augustine's career and writings ...This is a swashbuckling, stimulating, immensely readable portrait of a great but flawed genius. Both its iconoclasm and its academic credentials will mean this is the new 'must read' book for the Augustine industry ... Absorbing and brilliant. A fascinating biography and all praise should go to the author for bringing the life and times of such a person alive. Brilliant ... penetrating study of the man who in many respects refounded western Christianity in his own image ... O'Donnell's style is clear and fluent, and his translations are extraordinarily vivid. This absorbing new biography makes sense of a fascinating life and a complex, often confused posterity.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781861976864
  • Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
  • Height: 241 mm
  • No of Pages: 416
  • Sub Title: A New Biography
  • Width: 164 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1861976860
  • Publisher Date: 28 Apr 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 36 mm
  • Weight: 755 gr


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