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Augustine: A New Biography (Hardcover)

by James Joseph O'Donnell (Author)

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Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Ecco (April 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0060535377
ISBN-13: 978-0060535377
Product Dimensions: 24 x 16.5 x 4 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Did not satisfy my curiosity, 19 April 2008

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This author is obviously very well versed in the works of St Augustine. However, like many experts he doesn't appear to realise that his reader is likely to be less well informed so leaves out whole areas of backgound material that would have made a much more informative book. Also be warned that it is strictly a biography where the author struggles to add meat to his limited sources (i.e. the admittedly prodigious literary output of Augustine). He does not really address Augustine's legacy, despite that being his express purpose, and barely explores his ideas, merely paints a picture of the World of late Antiquity and Augustine's place in it. I am still in the dark on the subject of the Pelagian controversy while I am left in no doubt that O'Donnell vaguely disapproves of Augustine's stance. I would like to know more about Augustine's ideas, but this book does not provide them, except scattered around the text in throwaway remarks that leave the reader wondering whether he has just read something important. There is a reading list at the end of the book, so maybe that's the reason to buy it. Or you could try O'Donnell's website. I've forgotten why I was interested in Augustine in the first place, so YMMV. (though I did read this book to the bitter end). Not recommended, and if this is the standard of contemporary scholarship you are well advised to go straight to the primary sources ("Confessions" and "City of God").

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