Augustine of Hippo: A Biography

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University of California Press, 1969 - Biography & Autobiography - 463 pages
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.
 

Contents

PREFACE page
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15
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE A
16
AFRICA
19
MONICA
28
EDUCATION
35
WISDOM
40
i DUALISM
46
Instantia page
226
Disciplina
233
Populus Dei
244
Doctrina Christiana
259
SEEK HIS FACE EVERMore
270
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281
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE D
282
THE SACK OF ROME
287

ii Gnosis
53
FRIENDS
61
SUCCESS
65
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74
AMBROSE
79
THE PLATONISTS
88
CASSICIACUM
115
OSTIA
128
THAGASTE
132
HIPPO
138
THE LOST FUTURE
146
THE Confessions
158
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183
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE C
184
HIPPO REGIUS
189
Saluberrima consilia
203
Ubi Ecclesia?
212
WRITING THE City of God
299
Civitas peregrina
313
UNITY ACHIEVED
330
PELAGIUS AND PELAGIANISM
340
Causa Gratiae
353
Fundatissima Fides
365
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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE E
378
JULIAN OF ECLANUM i
381
PREDESTINATION
398
OLD AGE
408
THE END OF ROMAN AFRICA
419
DEATH
427
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL TABLE
435
INDEX
453
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Peter Brown is Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University. Brown is the leading English-language authority on St. Augustine; his many books include Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity (California, 1982), Body and Society (1988), Power and Persuasion (1992), Authority and the Sacred (1995), and The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, a.d. 200-1000 (1996).

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