Augustine of Hippo
A Life
by Henry Chadwick
Hardback
Price: £12.99
Publisher:Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published:27 August 2009
ISBN:978-0-199-56830-7
GoodBookStall Review:
When Professor Henry Chadwick died in 2008, a finished manuscript was discovered, which had been put to one side in the early 1980’s. It was this biography of Augustine of Hippo.
This is an ideal introduction to Saint Augustine’s life and ideas, written by a consummate historian of the Christian church. Chadwick charts Augustine’s career from his sensual pagan years in Carthage, his early embracing of Manichaeism, his move to Milan where he was forced to give up his faithful concubine and his renunciation thereafter of the flesh. His life then became a personal quest for the truth and, although his mother was Christian, he took some time before finally embracing Christianity. His conversion is told so thrillingly in his supreme masterpiece “Confessions”. Chadwick tells a fascinating story written with fluency and clarity and reveals on every page his profound knowledge of the saint and of the age in which he lived.
Reviewer: John Irvine (29/09/09)
When Professor Henry Chadwick died in 2008, a finished manuscript was discovered, which had been put to one side in the early 1980’s. It was this biography of Augustine of Hippo.
This is an ideal introduction to Saint Augustine’s life and ideas, written by a consummate historian of the Christian church. Chadwick charts Augustine’s career from his sensual pagan years in Carthage, his early embracing of Manichaeism, his move to Milan where he was forced to give up his faithful concubine and his renunciation thereafter of the flesh. His life then became a personal quest for the truth and, although his mother was Christian, he took some time before finally embracing Christianity. His conversion is told so thrillingly in his supreme masterpiece “Confessions”. Chadwick tells a fascinating story written with fluency and clarity and reveals on every page his profound knowledge of the saint and of the age in which he lived.
Reviewer: John Irvine (29/09/09)
