Augustine of Hippo
by Peter Brown
Paula Fredriksen says: Brown relates a life story that lets us understand Augustine, sympathise with him and even to like and to respect him. That’s great writing
Robin Lane Fox says: Peter Brown’s immense strength is placing the changes in Augustine’s outlook against the changing tone and social pressures of the eras and locations in which he moved. It is a most brilliant picture of the changes in the individual in antiquity who is best known through his own writing, including his superb Confessions.
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Robin Lane Fox, Classicist
“Brown relates a life story that lets us understand Augustine, sympathise with him and even to like and to respect him. That’s great writing.” Read more...
Paula Fredriksen, Theologians & Historians of Religion
