Title: Confessions
First published: 1595
Description: Garry Wills’s complete translation of Saint Augustine’s spiritual masterpiece—available now for the first time Garry Wills is an exceptionally gifted translator and one of our best writers on religion today. His bestselling translations of individual chapters of Saint Augustine’s Confessions have received widespread and glowing reviews. Now for the first time, Wills’s translation of the entire work is being published as a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. Removed by time and place but not by spiritual relevance, Augustine’s Confessions continues to influence contemporary religion, language, and thought. Reading with fresh, keen eyes, Wills brings his superb gifts of analysis and insight to this ambitious translation of the entire book. “[Wills] renders Augustine’s famous and influential text in direct language with all the spirited wordplay and poetic strength intact.”—Los Angeles Times“[Wills’s] translations . . . are meant to bring Augustine straight into our own minds; and they succeed. Well-known passages, over which my eyes have often gazed, spring to life again from Wills’s pages.”—Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books“Augustine flourishes in Wills’s hand.”—James Wood“A masterful synthesis of classical philosophy and scriptural erudition.”—Chicago Tribune
Subjects: Religious aspects of Truth, Christian saints, Christianity, Spiritual life, Religion & Spirituality, Bishop of Hippo, Hippo, Collected works, Christian life, Early church, Inspiration, Bishops, Theology, Mass, Truth, Time, Extinct city, Catholic Church, Early works to 1800, Nonfiction, Saint Augustine, Biography & Autobiography, Religious aspects of Inspiration, Biography, Oriya literature, History and criticism, General, Fiction - General, Religion, Augustine,, Religion - Classic Works, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, Hippo (Extinct city), Augustine, Algeria, Biographies, 11.51 early Christianity, Saints chrétiens, Évêques, Église catholique, Bekering, Confessiones (Augustinus), Augustine, saint, bishop of hippo, 354-430, Saints, biography, Christian literature, early, Africa, biography, Philosophy, Philosophie, Confessiones (Augustine, of Hippo, Saint), Christian literature, Theology, middle ages, 600-1500, Theology, doctrinal, Latin literature, translations into english, Biographies &amp; autobiographies, Augustine , 354-430, Bishopscatholic church, Christian saints--algeria--hippo (extinct city)--biography, Br65 .a6 1992, 242, Br65.a6 e5 1993, open_syllabus_project, Ouvrages avant 1800, Transcendance de Dieu, Louange de Dieu, Foi, Développement, Grâce (Théologie), Religion et médecine, Confessions, Classics, FICTION, Saints, Pastoral literature, Christian biography, Theology, early works to 1800, Sin, Redemption, Faith, Classic Literature, Asceticism, Latin American literature, Medieval and modern Latin literature, spirituality, Latin language materials, History, Early Christian philosophy, Biography / Autobiography, History & Surveys - Medieval, Good and evil, Théologie, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Christian Life / Devotional, RELIGION / Devotional, Br65.a6 e5 2006, 270.2092 b, Mysticisme, Dictionaries, French, English language, Christian Church, Religious, Korean, Spanish, Catholic authors, Spiritual biography, Catholic church, africa, Catholic church, biography, Catholic church, clergy, Catholic church., Br65.a6 e5 2017, Confessiones (Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo), Spiritual Masters, Spiritual Theology, Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Confessions, Theology, early church, ca. 30-600, Christian Theology, Meditations
Places: Algeria, Hippo, Hippo (Extinct city)
People: Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo, David Otis Fuller (1903-,), David Otis Fuller (1903-1988,), Augustin saint, évêque d'Hippone, Peter Abelard (1079-1142), Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430), Marie Ange Simard
Time periods: Early church, ca. 30-600, Early works to 1800, Late Antiquity
LC classification: BR'65'A6'F8'1917, BR'65'A92'C7'1909, BR65.A6 E5 1838, PA6156.A8 912 BR65.A6 1912, BR'65'A6'E5, BR65.A6 .E5 1943, AC1, AC'1'G7'V.18