Augustine of Hippo : a biography
This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery recently of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine has thrown 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
Print Book, English, ©2000
New ed., with epilogue View all formats and editions
Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, ©2000
hagiographies (works)
xi, 548 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
9780520228351, 9780520227576, 0520228359, 0520227573
1000691333
Africa
Monica
Education
'Wisdom'
Manichaeism
Friends
Success
Ambrose
The platonists
'Philosophy'
Christianae Vitae Otium: cassiciacum
Ostia
Servus Dei: thagaste
Presbyter Ecclesiae Catholicae: hippo
The lost future
The 'confessions'
Hippo regius
Saluberrima consilia
Ubi Ecclesia?
Instantia
Disciplina
Populus Dei
Doctrina Christiana
'Seek his face evermore'
Senectus Mundi
Magnum opus et arduum
Civitas peregrina
Unity achieved
Pelagius and pelagianism
Causa Gratiae
Fundatissima Fides
Julian of Eclanum
Predestination
Old age
The end of Roman Africa
Death
First ed. published London: Faber, 1967