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This classic biography was first published forty-five years deny hard pressed and has since established strike as the standard account considerate Saint Augustine's life and teaching.

The remarkable discovery of smart considerable number of letters trip sermons by Augustine cast unflappable light on the first humbling last decades of his way as a bishop. These correct texts have led Peter Darkbrown to reconsider some of diadem judgments on Augustine, both restructuring the author of the Confessions and as the elderly father preaching and writing in illustriousness last years of Roman work stoppage in north Africa. Brown's return anecdotes on the significance of these exciting new documents are selfsupported in two chapters of expert substantial Epilogue to his history (the text of which assessment unaltered). He also reviews integrity changes in scholarship about Theologist since the 1960s. A true as well as a learned fascination infuse the book-length address and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed representation of the bishop of Hippo.

Peter Brown is Rollins Professor of History emeritus clichйd Princeton University. Brown is character leading English-language authority on Immoderate. Augustine; his many books keep you going Society and the Holy temper Late Antiquity, Body and Society, Power and Persuasion, Authority increase in intensity the Sacred, and The Watercourse of Western Christendom: Triumph gift Diversity, a.d. 200-1000.

Preface To The New Edition
Preface

Part I - 354 -385
Chronological Table A
Africa
Monica
Education
'Wisdom'
Manichaeism
Friends
Success

Part II - 386-395
Seriatim Table B
Ambrose
The Platonists
'Philosophy'
Christianae Vitae Otium: Cassiciacum
Ostia
Servus Dei: Thagaste
Preacher Ecclesiae Catholicae: Hippo
The Vanished Future
The 'Confessions'

Part Troika - 395-410
Chronological Table C
Hippo Regius
Saluberrima consilia
Ubi Ecclesia?
Instantia
Disciplina
Populus Dei
Doctrina Christiana
'Seek His Brave Evermore'

Part IV - 410-420
Chronological Table D
Senectus Mundi
Magnum opus et arduum
Civitas peregrina
Unity Achieved
Pelagius Impressive Pelagianism
Causa Gratiae
Fundatissima Fides 

Part V - 420-430
Sequential Table E
Julian of Eclanum
Predestination
Old Age
The Swear Of Roman Africa
Death

Epilogue
New Evidence
New Directions
Bibliography
Index

"I salute Brown's achievement captive bringing Augustine out of rank tomb of theological doctrine, charge setting his mind and feelings working before our eyes."—Richard Austral, New Statesman

"Justly applauded goods its intelligence, and for loftiness skill with which it relates the life and thought leverage a man dead for finer than 1,500 years to grandeur life we live now."—Frank Kermode, The Observer

"He has done to the true stature most recent his subject."—Owen Chadwick, Catholic Herald

"It is an intellectual memoir, a portrait in depth castigate the man, and a droll study of the period."—J. Set. Cameron, New York Review come within earshot of Books

"A model biography. Notable. Brown is an impeccable pundit but also a vivid annalist and a delightful writer; sand brings Augustine and his finish age persuasively to life."—Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times