Augustine of Hippo
A Life
Augustine of Hippo
A Life
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199568307
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 27/08/2009
Width: 14.5 cm
Height: 21 cm
The life and works of Augustine of Hippo (354-430) have shaped the development of the Christian Church, sparking controversy and influencing the ideas of theologians through subsequent centuries. His words are still frequently quoted in devotions throughout the global Church today. His key themes retain a striking contemporary relevance - what is the place of the Church in the world? What is the relation between nature and grace?
Augustine's intellectual development is recounted with clarity and warmth in this newly rediscovered biography of Augustine, as interpreted by the acclaimed church historian, the late Professor Henry Chadwick. Augustine's intellectual journey from schoolboy and student to Bishop and champion of Western Christendom in a period of intense political upheaval, is narrated in Chadwick's characteristically rigorous yet sympathetic style.
With a foreword reflecting on Professor Chadwick's distinctive approach to Augustine by Professor Peter Brown.
Foreword ; 1. A Personal Quest ; 2. Cassiciacum and death of Monnica at Ostia ; 3. Back to Thagaste ; 4. Discovering the Church ; 5. Bishop ; 6. North African Christianity ; 7. Christian Culture ; 8. Divided Christians ; 9. Discerning the Trinity ; 10. Two cities ; 11. Freedom and Grace ; Selected Reading
a skilfully and colourfully woven narrative of Augustine's life and times. * Margaret Lane. The Journal of Theological Studies * Chadwick's biography is full of deftly placed detail and a sharpness that matches its subject's...(and) would ignite or revive interest in Augustine in almost any intellegent reader... * Lucy Beckett, Times Literary Supplement * Gem of a biography. * Diarmaid MacCulloch, Literary Review * Augustine's intellectual development is recounted with clarity and warmth...Chadwick's deep scholarship is evident throughout this book. * Methodist Recorder * Thank goodness we had Chadwick, level-headed and drenched in the sources, to unravel the threads of Augustine's musings. * Jonathan Wright, Catholic Herald * Read Chadwick, then read him again. You will learn. * Jonathan Wright, Catholic Herald * Chadwick succeeds in a spectacular manner. * R A Marcus, The Tablet * Uncanny skill in catching...the odd revealing detail, moving about Augustine's vast textual output with magisterial ease. * R. A. Markus, The Tablet * His Augustine emerges from his pages as an altogether more human and more humane figure than we meet in many of his interpreters. * R A Markus, The Tablet *
