AUGUSTINE. CONVERSIONS TO CONFESSIONS

A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographiesAug ustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the Confessions, w hich continues to delight its many admirers. In it he writes about his infancy and his schooling in the classics in late Roman North Africa, his remarkable mother, his sexual sins ('Give me chastity, but not yet,' he famously prayed), his time in an outlawed heret ical sec...[Leer más]