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Confessions First Penguin Print Edition
Author(s): Saint Augustine (Author), R. Pine-Coffin (Translator)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Publication Date: 29 May 2003
- Edition: First Penguin Print
- Language: English
- Print length: 352 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780140441147
- ISBN-13: 9780140441147
Book Description
'Give me chastity and continence, but not yet'
The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting world-views. The Confessions First Penguin Print Edition, written when he was in his forties, recounts how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle to become one of Christianity's most influential thinkers. A remarkably honest spiritual autobiography, the Confessions First Penguin Print Edition also addresses fundamental issues of Christian doctrine, and many of the prayers and meditations it includes are still an integral part of the practice of the faith today.
Translated with an Introduction by R. S. PINE-COFFIN
Editorial Reviews
Review
"[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
About the Author
St Augustine of Hippo, the great Doctor of the Latin Church, was born at Thagaste in North Africa, in A.D. 354. He was brought up as a Christian but he was soon converted to the Manichean religion. He also came under the influence of Neoplatonism. However, in 387 he renounced all his unorthodox beliefs and was baptised. His surviving works had a great influence on Christian theology and the psychology and political theology of the West.
R.S. Pine-Coffin is a Roman Catholic and was born in 1917.
