Confessions (Augustine - Oxford Chadwick transl.)

Author: Augustine

Translator: Henry Chadwick

ISBN: 9780199537822

Binding: paperback

Section: Christianity-General

In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the domination of his sexual nature, his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage, and the recovery of the faith his mother Monica had taught him during his childhood. Now, Henry Chadwick, an eminent scholar of early Christianity, has given us the first new English translation in thirty years of this classic spiritual journey. To make The Confessions accessible to contemporary readers, he provides the most complete and informative notes of any recent translation, and includes an introduction to establish the context.