The Confessions of Saint Augustine - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0451531213 ISBN 13: 9780451531216

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 2009

Riassunto

In his 1500-year-old Confessions, Augustine of Hippo tells the story of his remarkable life, interwoven with his insights of endless wisdom. Noted Paul VI: ?all of antiquity?s philosophy converges in his work.?

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L'autore

Rex Warner was a Professor of the University of Connecticut from 1964 until his retirement in He was born in 1905 and went to Wadham College, Oxford, where he gained a ‘first’ in Classical Moderations, and took a degree in English Literature. He taught in Egypt and England, and was Director of the British Institute, Athens, from 1945 to 1947. He has written poems, novels and critical essays, has worked on films and broadcasting, and has translated many works, of which Xenophon’s History of My Time and The Persian Expedition, Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War, and Plutarch’s Lives (under the title Fall of the Roman Republic) and Moral Essays have been published in Penguin Classics.

Martin Marty, one of today’s most respected theologians, is professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, where the Martin Marty Center has been founded to promote public religion endeavors. His more than fifty books include Modern American Religion. He is a winner of the National Book Award and was the first religion scholar to receive the National Humanities Medal.

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Book by Warner Rex Translator Block Elizabeth FRW Marty

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0451531213
• ISBN 13: 9780451531216
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 385