Saint Augustine
By: Garry Wills.
Series: A Penguin life; Penguin lives series.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Christian saints -- Algeria -- Hippo (Extinct city) -- Biography
Description: "For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the 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."--BOOK JACKET.

"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. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-149).