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A companion to the confessions of St. Augustine / John M. Quinn.
Van Pelt Library BR65.A62 Q56 2002
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quinn, John M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Confessiones.
- Augustine.
- Christian saints--Algeria--Hippo (Extinct city)--Biography.
- Christian saints.
- Algeria--Hippo (Extinct city).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 967 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. Lang, [2002]
- Contents:
- Infancy and childhood
- Sixteenth year
- Sojourn in Carthage
- Manichee and teacher in Thagaste
- Augustine abandons Manicheism
- Theoretical indecisiveness, moral groping
- Encounter with neoplatonism : intellectual conversion
- Witnesses, struggle, moral conversion
- Baptism : death of Monica
- Present state of soul
- Reflections on scripture : creation, eternity, time
- Understanding Genesis 1:1-2
- Allegorical interpretation of Genesis 1:2-31
- The structure of the church.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 921-939) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin E. Aubrey Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0820424064
- OCLC:
- 50503419
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