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Augustine of Hippo
Peter Brown
其他書名
A Biography
出版
Univ of California Press
, 2013-11-05
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Religious
History / General
History / Ancient / General
History / World
Religion / General
Religion / Christianity / History
Religion / Christianity / General
Religion / Antiquities & Archaeology
ISBN
0520280415
9780520280410
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7akwDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
This classic biography was first published forty-five years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.
The remarkable discovery of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine cast fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of the
Confessions
and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in north Africa. Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered). He also reviews the changes in scholarship about Augustine since the 1960s. A personal as well as a scholarly fascination infuse the book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed portrait of the bishop of Hippo.