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Author: Suzanne M. Wolfe Publisher: Thomas Nelson ISBN: 0718039629 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 305
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Winner of the Christianity Today 2017 Book Award! Before he became a father of the Christian Church, Augustine of Hippo loved a woman whose name has been lost to history. This is her story. She met Augustine in Carthage when she was seventeen. She was the poor daughter of a mosaic-layer; he was a promising student and heir to a fortune. His brilliance and passion intoxicated her, but his social class would be forever beyond her reach. She became his concubine, and by the time he was forced to leave her, she was thirty years old and the mother of his son. And his Confessions show us that he never forgot her. She was the only woman he ever loved. In a society in which classes rarely mingle on equal terms, and an unwed mother can lose her son to the burgeoning career of her ambitious lover, this anonymous woman was a first-hand witness to Augustine’s anguished spiritual journey from secretive religious cultist to the celebrated Bishop of Hippo. Giving voice to one of history’s most mysterious women, The Confessions of X tells the story of Augustine of Hippo’s nameless lover, their relationship before his famous conversion, and her life after his rise to fame. A tale of womanhood, faith, and class at the end of antiquity, The Confessions of X is more than historical fiction . . . it is a timeless story of love and loss in the shadow of a theological giant.
Author: Suzanne M. Wolfe Publisher: Thomas Nelson ISBN: 0718039629 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 305
Book Description
Winner of the Christianity Today 2017 Book Award! Before he became a father of the Christian Church, Augustine of Hippo loved a woman whose name has been lost to history. This is her story. She met Augustine in Carthage when she was seventeen. She was the poor daughter of a mosaic-layer; he was a promising student and heir to a fortune. His brilliance and passion intoxicated her, but his social class would be forever beyond her reach. She became his concubine, and by the time he was forced to leave her, she was thirty years old and the mother of his son. And his Confessions show us that he never forgot her. She was the only woman he ever loved. In a society in which classes rarely mingle on equal terms, and an unwed mother can lose her son to the burgeoning career of her ambitious lover, this anonymous woman was a first-hand witness to Augustine’s anguished spiritual journey from secretive religious cultist to the celebrated Bishop of Hippo. Giving voice to one of history’s most mysterious women, The Confessions of X tells the story of Augustine of Hippo’s nameless lover, their relationship before his famous conversion, and her life after his rise to fame. A tale of womanhood, faith, and class at the end of antiquity, The Confessions of X is more than historical fiction . . . it is a timeless story of love and loss in the shadow of a theological giant.
Author: Robin Lane Fox Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 0465061575 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 885
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"This narrative of the first half of Augustine's life conjures the intellectual and social milieu of the late Roman Empire with a Proustian relish for detail." -- New York Times In Augustine, celebrated historian Robin Lane Fox follows Augustine of Hippo on his journey to the writing of his Confessions. Unbaptized, Augustine indulged in a life of lust before finally confessing and converting. Lane Fox recounts Augustine's sexual sins, his time in an outlawed heretical sect, and his gradual return to spirituality. Magisterial and beautifully written, Augustine is the authoritative portrait of this colossal figure at his most thoughtful, vulnerable, and profound.
Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo) Publisher: New City Press ISBN: 1565481402 Category : Bible Languages : en Pages : 462
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"As the psalms are a microcosm of the Old Testament, so the Expositions of the Psalms can be seen as a microcosm of Augustinian thought. In the Book of Psalms are to be found the history of the people of Israel, the theology and spirituality of the Old Covenant, and a treasury of human experience expressed in prayer and poetry. So too does the work of expounding the psalms recapitulate and focus the experiences of Augustine's personal life, his theological reflections and his pastoral concerns as Bishop of Hippo."--Publisher's website.
Author: Bihua Li Publisher: William Morrow ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 280
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Story of a male Beijing opera star, his love for another male singer, and the beautiful courtesan who comes between them, sweeps through five decades of Chinese history.
Author: Bonnie Edwards Publisher: Aphrodisia ISBN: 0758224141 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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Faye Grantham doesn't quite know what came over her except that her body was on fire. She knew what she wanted, craved, needed--hot sex. Right now. Tonight. But nice girls don't get to do whatever they want, with whomever they want. Faye feels like someone's trying to tell her, Go for it! The long-gone ladies of the old bordello she inherited are with her in spirit--sexual spirit, that is. If the walls of Perdition House could only talk ... oh my. But in fact, they do, and their ghostly tales of amorous encounters are awakening Faye's desire for flesh-and-blood men. Who is she gonna call? Mouth-wateringly sexy Mark or hard and handsome Liam? Her wildest fantasies are about to get very, very real.
Author: Gillian Clark Publisher: CUP Archive ISBN: 9780521409421 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 132
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Augustine's Confessions, written at the end of the fourth century, is a landmark text in the history of European culture. Augustine tells how and why he abandoned a successful career to follow a life of prayer and study, and how he sought for a true understanding of God and the Bible.
Author: Saint Augustine Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191500976 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 468
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In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art. Augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive, his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high power at the imperial court of Milan, and his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage as he recovered the faith that his mother had taught him. It was in a Milan garden that Augustine finally achieved the act of will to Christian conversion, which he compared to a lazy man in bed finally deciding it is time to get up and face the day. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author: Zena Hitz Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691229198 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 238
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An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or connection to others? While many forms of leisure meet these needs, Zena Hitz writes, few experiences are so fulfilling as the inner life, whether that of a bookworm, an amateur astronomer, a birdwatcher, or someone who takes a deep interest in one of countless other subjects. Drawing on inspiring examples, from Socrates and Augustine to Malcolm X and Elena Ferrante, and from films to Hitz's own experiences as someone who walked away from elite university life in search of greater fulfillment, Lost in Thought is a passionate and timely reminder that a rich life is a life rich in thought. Today, when even the humanities are often defended only for their economic or political usefulness, Hitz says our intellectual lives are valuable not despite but because of their practical uselessness. And while anyone can have an intellectual life, she encourages academics in particular to get back in touch with the desire to learn for its own sake, and calls on universities to return to the person-to-person transmission of the habits of mind and heart that bring out the best in us. Reminding us of who we once were and who we might become, Lost in Thought is a moving account of why renewing our inner lives is fundamental to preserving our humanity.
Author: Suzanne M. Wolfe
Author: Suzanne M. Wolfe
Author: Robin Lane Fox
Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Author: Bihua Li
Author: Bonnie Edwards
Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Author: Gillian Clark
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Author: Saint Augustine
Author: Zena Hitz