Augustine the African by Conybeare, Catherine

Augustine the African

Augustine of Hippo (354-430), also known as Saint Augustine, was one of the most influential theologians in...
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Author: Catherine Conybeare
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Language: English
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Augustine the African by Conybeare, Catherine

Augustine the African

$48.48

Augustine the African

$48.48
Author: Catherine Conybeare
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Catherine Conybeare
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 08/12/2025
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.15h x 6.35w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9781631498527


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/09/2025
Library Journal 07/01/2025 pg. 56
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2025
Booklist 07/01/2025 pg. 3

About the Author
Conybeare, Catherine: - 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.

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