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Lives of Great Religious Books Augustine’s Confessions Lives of Great Religious Books Th e Tibetan Book of the Dead, Donald S. Lopez, Jr. Dietrich Bonhoeff er’s Letters and Papers fr om Prison, Martin E. Marty Augustine’s Confessions, Garry Wills forthcoming: Revelation, Bruce Chilton Th e Analects of Confucius, Annping Chin and Jonathan D. Spence Th e Dead Sea Scrolls, John J. Collins Th e Bhagavad Gita, Richard H. Davis Josephus’s Th e Jewish War, Martin Goodman Th e Book of Mormon, Paul Gutjahr Th e Book of Genesis, Ronald S. Hendel Th e Book of Job, Mark Larrimore Th e Greatest Translations of All Time: Th e Septuagint and Th e Vulgate, Jack Miles Th e Passover Haggadah, Vanessa Ochs Th e Song of Songs, Ilana Pardes Rumi’s Masnavi, Omid Safi Th e I Ching, Richard J. Smith Th e Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, David Gordon White Augustine’s Confessions A Biography Garry Wills PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS Princeton and Oxford Copyright © 2011 by Garry Wills Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to Permissions, Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire ox20 1tw press.princeton.edu All Rights Reserved Jacket illustration: Vision of Saint Augustine, by Vittore Carpaccio (1455–1525). Photo: Mauro Magliani, 1998; courtesy of Alinari / Art Resource, NY Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wills, Garry, 1934– Augustine’s Confessions : a biography / Garry Wills. p. cm. — (Lives of great religious books) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 978-0-691-14357-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Confessiones. 2. Christian saints—Algeria—Hippo (Extinct city)—Biography—History and criticism. I. Title. BR65.A62W55 2011 270.2092—dc22 2010016452 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available Th is book has been composed in Garamond Premier Pro Printed on acid-free paper. ∞ Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents A Note on the Translation vii Chapter 1 Th e Book’s Birth 1 Chapter 2 Th e Book’s Genre 17 Chapter 3 Th e Book’s African Days 26 Chapter 4 Th e Book’s Ambrose 41 Chapter 5 Th e Book’s “Conversion” 58 Chapter 6 Th e Book’s Baptismal Days 78 Chapter 7 Th e Book’s Hinge 98 Chapter 8 Th e Book’s Culmination 112 Chapter 9 Th e Book’s Aft erlife: Early Reception, Later Neglect 133 Notes 149 Basic Readings 155 Index 157 v This page intentionally left blank a note on the translations All translations are by the author. Th ose from the Bible are given according to Augustine’s Latin cita- tions of it. References to O’Donnell are to volume and page of James J. O’Donnell, Augustine “Confessions,” 3 vols. (Oxford University Press, 1992). vii This page intentionally left blank Lives of Great Religious Books Augustine’s Confessions
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