LEADER 03780oam 22005774 450 001 996214873203316 005 20150123152300.0 010 $a0-674-99030-7 035 $a(CKB)3820000000011987 035 $a(OCoLC)903198761 035 $a(MaCbHUP)hup0000126 035 $a(EXLCZ)993820000000011987 100 $a20141025d2014 my 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aConfessions /$fAugustine ; with an English translation by William Watts 210 1$aCambridge, MA :$cHarvard University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aLoeb Classical Library ; $v27 300 $aVolume II only; Volume I of 1912 edition not available digitally. 320 $aIncludes bibliography and index. 330 $aConfessions is a spiritual autobiography of Augustine's early life, family, associations, and explorations of alternative religious and theological viewpoints as he moved toward his conversion. Cast as a prayer addressed to God, it offers a gripping personal story and a philosophical exploration destined to have broad and lasting impact.$bAugustinus (354-430 CE), son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste in North Africa, and his Christian wife Monica, while studying in Africa to become a rhetorician, plunged into a turmoil of philosophical and psychological doubts in search of truth, joining for a time the Manichaean society. He became a teacher of grammar at Tagaste, and lived much under the influence of his mother and his friend Alypius. About 383 he went to Rome and soon after to Milan as a teacher of rhetoric, being now attracted by the philosophy of the Sceptics and of the Neo-Platonists. His studies of Paul's letters with Alypius and the preaching of Bishop Ambrose led in 386 to his rejection of all sensual habits and to his famous conversion from mixed beliefs to Christianity. He returned to Tagaste and there founded a religious community. In 395 or 396 he became Bishop of Hippo, and was henceforth engrossed with duties, writing and controversy. He died at Hippo during the successful siege by the Vandals. From Augustine's large output the Loeb Classical Library offers that great autobiography the Confessions (in two volumes); On the City of God (seven volumes), which unfolds God's action in the progress of the world's history, and propounds the superiority of Christian beliefs over pagan in adversity; and a selection of Letters which are important for the study of ecclesiastical history and Augustine's relations with other theologians. 606 $aBishops$zAlgeria$zHippo (Extinct city)$xBishops$vBiography$vEarly works to 1800 606 $aCatholic Church$zAlgeria$zHippo (Extinct city)$xBishops$vBiography 606 $aChristian saints$zAlgeria$zHippo (Extinct city)$vBiography$vEarly works to 1800 606 $aChristian saints$zAlgeria$zHippo (Extinct city)$vBiography 606 $aBishops$3(OCoLC)833378$2fast 606 $aChristian saints$3(OCoLC)859491$2fast 606 $aTheology$3(OCoLC)1149559$2fast 607 $aHippo (Extinct city)$vBiography 607 $aAlgeria$zHippo (Extinct city)$2fast 615 0$aBishops$xBishops 615 0$aCatholic Church$xBishops 615 0$aChristian saints 615 0$aChristian saints 615 7$aBishops 615 7$aChristian saints 615 7$aTheology 700 $aAugustine$cSaint, Bishop of Hippo,$0152280 702 $aWatts$b William$f1590?-1649, 702 $aAugustine$cSaint, Bishop of Hippo, 702 $aAugustine$cSaint, Bishop of Hippo, 801 0$bMaCbHUP 801 2$bTLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996214873203316 996 $aConfessiones$913117 997 $aUNISA