This Week's Suggested Book
from the Ashbrook Center
(Monday, March 06, 2000)
 | | St. Augustine
by Gary Wills |
Viking Penguin
152 pages, January 1999
Hardcover, 19.95
ISBN: 0670886106
A percentage of the proceeds from your purchase of this book from Amazon.com will benefit the
Ashbrook Center.
For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the fresh, keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrines of mind and body, wisdom and God.
Saint Augustine explores both the great ruminator on the human condition and the everyday man who set pen to parchment. It challenges many misconceptions—among them the myth of his early sexual excesses. A masterly example of biography in the short form, Garry Wills's Saint Augustine illuminates both the man and the age with the eloquent economy that will introduce to a new generation of readers this once popular genre.
|
Member Organization.
