TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wills,Garry
TI  - Augustine's Confessions: a biography 
T2  - Lives of great religious books
SN  - 1400838029
AV  - BR65.A62 W55 2011eb
U1  - 270.2092 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Augustine,
KW  - Confessiones (Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo)
KW  - fast
KW  - Christian saints
KW  - Algeria
KW  - Hippo (Extinct city)
KW  - Biography
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Augustine
KW  - Saint, Bishop of Hippo
KW  - Confessiones
KW  - Religion
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Church
KW  - History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - General
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The book's birth -- The book's genre -- The book's African days -- The book's Ambrose -- The book's "conversion" -- The book's baptismal days -- The book's culmination -- The book's afterlife : early reception, later neglect
N2  - In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills's biography of Augustine and his translation of the Confessions, this is an unparalleled introduction to one of the most important books in the Christian and Western traditions. Understandably fascinated by the story of Augustine's life, modern readers have largely succumbed to the temptation to read the Confess
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