Catherine Conybeare: Augustine the African

Cover: 9781631498527 | Augustine the African | Catherine Conybeare | Buch | Englisch | 2025

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Augustine of Hippo (354-430), also known as Saint Augustine, was one of the most influential theologians in history. His writings, including the autobiographical Confessions and The City of God, helped shape the foundations of Christianity and Western philosophy. But for many centuries, Augustine's North African birth and Berber heritage have been simply dismissed. Catherine Conybeare, a world-renowned Augustine scholar, here puts the "African" back in Augustine's story. As she relates, his seminal books were written neither in Rome nor in Milan, but in Africa, where he had returned as a wanderer during a perilous time when the Western Roman Empire was crumbling. Using extant letters and other shards of evidence, Conybeare retraces Augustine's travels, revealing how his groundbreaking works emerge from an exile's perspective within an African context. In its depiction of this Christian saint, Augustine the African upends conventional wisdom and traces core ideas of Christian thought to their origins on the African continent.

Über den Autor

Catherine Conybeare, a renowned classicist, is the first woman to write a biography of Augustine since journalist Rebecca West nearly a century ago. Reinterpreting the writings of Augustine and his contemporaries has formed the heart of her scholarly work. She has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. She is Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College and lives in Pennsylvania.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Fachbereich:	Biografien
Genre:	Importe , Religion & Theologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13:	9781631498527
ISBN-10:	1631498525
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Conybeare, Catherine
Hersteller:	Liveright Publishing Corporation
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	232 x 161 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Catherine Conybeare
Erscheinungsdatum:	12.08.2025
Gewicht:	0,522 kg