Augustine of Hippo

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Peter Brown is Rollins Professor of History emeritus at Princeton University. Brown is the leading English-language authority on St. Augustine; his many books include Society and the Holy in 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.

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"I salute Brown's achievement in bringing Augustine out of the tomb of theological doctrine, and setting his mind and emotions working before our eyes."--Richard Southern, New Statesman "Justly applauded for its intelligence, and for the skill with which it relates the life and thought of a man dead for more than 1,500 years to the life we live now."--Frank Kermode, The Observer "He has attained to the true stature of his subject."--Owen Chadwick, Catholic Herald "It is an intellectual biography, a portrait in depth of the man, and a brilliant study of the period."--J. M. Cameron, New York Review of Books "A model biography. Mr. Brown is an impeccable scholar but also a vivid biographer and a delightful writer; he brings Augustine and his whole age persuasively to life."--Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times

Zusammenfassung
Offers an account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.

Inhalt
Preface To The New Edition
Preface

Part I - 354 -385
Chronological Table 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
The 'Confessions'

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

Part IV - 410-420
Chronological Table D
Senectus Mundi
Magnum opus et arduum
Civitas peregrina
Unity Achieved
Pelagius And Pelagianism
Causa Gratiae
Fundatissima Fides

Part V - 420-430
Chronological Table E
Julian of Eclanum
Predestination
Old Age
The End Of Roman Africa
Death

Epilogue
New Evidence
New Directions
Bibliography
Index