Confessions
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Confessions
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St Augustine's Confessions is perhaps the most important spiritual autobiography of all. Best-selling author, Fr Benignus OโRourke, provides a new and luminescent translation of Confessions, his beautiful and eloquent prose shedding new light on the various shades of meaning in Saint Augustineโs meditations and stories.
A canticle to God, and full of psychological insights that might have been written yesterday, Confessions are the story of a soul, and also the story of God, and how he is constantly at work seeking us.
Confessions is perhaps the most important spiritual autobiography of all: it chronicles Saint Augustine's wild, dissonant youth and subsequent conversion to Christianity, as well as providing significant divine and philosophical insight.
Bestselling author, Fr Benignus O'Rourke OSA, provides a new and luminescent translation of Confessions, his beautiful and eloquent prose shedding new light on the various shades of meaning in Saint Augustine's meditations and stories.
Each book is prefaced with an introduction providing further accessibility and depth of understanding to this seminal work.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780232530339
Publisher: Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 August 2013
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd
Contributors:
- Translated by Fr Benignus O'Rourke, OSA
- Foreword by Martin Laird
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 126.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 416
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About the Author
Fr Benignus O'Rourke O.S.A is an Augustinian friar and a member of the community at Clare Priory, Suffolk, and the bestselling author of Finding Your Hidden Treasure (DLT, 2010).
Also by St Augustine of Hippo
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