Augustine : conversions to confessions /
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| Author / Creator: | Lane Fox, Robin, 1946- author. |
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| Edition: | First US edition. |
| Imprint: | New York : Basic Books, [2015] ©2015 |
| Description: | xiv, 657 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10389643 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Confession and Conversion
- 2. Worldly Ambitions
- Part I.
- 3. Infancy, Order and Sin
- 4. Family Scars
- 5. 'So Small a Boy, So Great a Sinner...'
- 6. Unfriendly Friendship
- 7. 'To Carthage I Came...'
- Part II.
- 8. Apostle of Christ
- 9. The Living Gospel
- 10. Becoming Martha
- 11. Selling Lies for a Living
- 12. Guided Encounters
- 13. Eternal Rome
- Part III.
- 14. Milan and Ambrose
- 15. 'Torn from My Side...'
- 16. Greater Friends
- 17. Plato Reborn
- 18. Inwards'and Upwards
- 19. Sex, Ambition and Philosophy
- 20. Into the Garden
- Part IV.
- 21. Gentle Withdrawal
- 22. Villa Life
- 23. 'Watering My Couch with Tears'
- 24. Augustine with Augustine
- 25. Born Again
- 26. The Last Days of Monnica
- 27. Authority and Love
- 28. Slaves of God
- 29. True Religion
- Part V.
- 30. The Reluctant Priest
- 31. Sinners and Seekers
- 32. Faith and Error
- 33. 'Not in Rioting and Drunkenness...'
- 34. Seat of the Scornful
- Part VI.
- 35. The Seven Steps
- 36. Paul and Lazarus
- 37. Postal Contacts
- 38. Amazing Grace
- 39. Food for Scandal
- 40. Shared Burdens
- 41. Confessing
- 42. The Heaven of Heavens
- 43. Epilogue
- Extended Captions for the Plate Sections
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
