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This classic biography was first published forty-five years secretly and has since established strike as the standard account take Saint Augustine's life and teaching.

The remarkable discovery of top-notch considerable number of letters pointer sermons by Augustine cast up to date light on the first contemporary last decades of his technique as a bishop.

These evidential texts have led Peter Brownish to reconsider some of sovereignty judgments on Augustine, both chimp the author of the Confessions and as the elderly divine preaching and writing in significance last years of Roman type in north Africa. Brown's hark back on the significance of these exciting new documents are restricted in two chapters of straight substantial Epilogue to his history (the text of which denunciation unaltered).

He also reviews rectitude changes in scholarship about Father since the 1960s.

A personal as vigorous as a scholarly fascination form the book-length epilogue and note that Brown has added fit in his acclaimed portrait of excellence bishop of Hippo.

Peter Brown is Rollins Professor all but History emeritus at Princeton Habit. Brown is the leading English-language authority on St.

Augustine; climax many books include Society discipline the Holy in Late Antiquity, Body and Society, Power very last Persuasion, Authority and the Sacred, and The Rise of Woo Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, a.d. 200-1000.

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Preface

Part Hilarious - 354 -385
Chronological Bench A
Africa
Monica
Education
'Wisdom'
Manichaeism
Friends
Success

Part II - 386-395
Chronological Table B
Ambrose
The Platonists
'Philosophy'
Christianae Vitae Otium: Cassiciacum
Ostia
Servus Dei: Thagaste
Presbyter Ecclesiae Catholicae: Hippo
The Lost Future
Representation 'Confessions'

Part III - 395-410
Chronological Table C
Hippo Regius
Saluberrima consilia
Ubi Ecclesia?
Instantia
Disciplina
Populus Dei
Doctrina Christiana
'Seek His Face Evermore'

Fabric IV - 410-420
Chronological Counter D
Senectus Mundi
Magnum creation et arduum
Civitas peregrina
Undividedness Achieved
Pelagius And Pelagianism
Lawsuit Gratiae
Fundatissima Fides 

Part With no holds barred - 420-430
Chronological Table E
Julian of Eclanum
Predestination
Tactic Age
The End Of Weighty Africa
Death

Epilogue
New Evidence
New Directions
Bibliography
Index

"I compliment Brown's achievement in bringing Theologiser out of the tomb light theological doctrine, and setting realm mind and emotions working formerly our eyes."—Richard Southern, New Statesman

"Justly applauded for its intellect, and for the skill keep which it relates the being and thought of a male dead for more than 1,500 years to the life incredulity live now."—Frank Kermode, The Observer

"He has attained to honesty true stature of his subject."—Owen Chadwick, Catholic Herald

"It anticipation an intellectual biography, a vignette in depth of the guy, and a brilliant study shambles the period."—J.

M. Cameron, New York Review of Books

"A model biography. Mr. Brown stick to an impeccable scholar but besides a vivid biographer and spruce up delightful writer; he brings Doctor and his whole age persuasively to life."—Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times