num_pages: 176
description: Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Qur'an Meant , coming fall 2017.Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills brings the same fresh scholarship, lively prose, and critical appreciation that characterize his well-known books on religion and American history to this outstanding biography of one of the most influential Christian philosophers.   Saint Augustine follows its subject from his youth in fourth-century Africa to his conversion and subsequent development as a theologian. It challenges the widely held misconceptions about Augustine’s sexual excesses and shows how, in embracing classical philosophy, Augustine managed to enlist “pagan authors” in the defense of Christianity. The result is a biography that makes a spiritual ancestor feel like our contemporary.
language: English
title: Saint Augustine
titlecomplete: Saint Augustine
genres: Religion, Theology, Biography, Philosophy, Africa, Church History, Nonfiction, History, Christianity, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 439
publisher: Penguin Books