Augustine's Confessions : (Record no. 132603)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2010016452
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System control number (Sirsi) i9780691143576
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (Sirsi) i9780691143576
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Language of cataloging eng
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016 7# - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC AGENCY CONTROL NUMBER
Record control number 015685078
Source Uk
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780691143576 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0691143579 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)608687795
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Authentication code pcc
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number BR 65.A62
Item number W55 2011
049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC)
Holding library VF$A
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wills, Garry,
Dates associated with a name 1934-
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Augustine's Confessions :
Remainder of title a biography /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Garry Wills.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Princeton, N.J. :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Princeton University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c2011.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent vii, 166 p. ;
Dimensions 20 cm.
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Lives of great religious books
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (p. 155) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note The book's birth -- The book's genre -- The book's African days -- The book's Ambrose -- The book's "conversion" -- The book's baptismal days -- The book's hinge -- The book's culmination -- The book's afterlife : early reception, later neglect.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "... Tells the story of theConfessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills's biography of Augustine and his translation of theConfessions, this is an unparalleled introduction to one of the most important books in the Christian and Western traditions. Understandably fascinated by the story of Augustine's life, modern readers have largely succumbed to the temptation to read theConfessions as autobiography. But, Wills argues, this is a mistake. The book is not autobiography but rather a long prayer, suffused with the language of Scripture and addressed to God, not man. Augustine tells the story of his life not for its own significance but in order to discern how, as a drama of sin and salvation leading to God, it fits into sacred history. "We have to read Augustine as we do Dante, " Wills writes, "alert to rich layer upon layer of Scriptural and theological symbolism." Wills also addresses the long afterlife of the book, from controversy in its own time and relative neglect during the Middle Ages to a renewed prominence beginning in the fourteenth century and persisting to today, when theConfessionshas become an object of interest not just for Christians but also historians, philosophers, psychiatrists, and literary critics"--Jacket.
600 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Augustine,
Titles and other words associated with a name of Hippo, Saint,
Dates associated with a name 354-430.
Title of a work Confessiones.
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Uniform title Lives of great religious books.
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    Library of Congress Classification     Storms Research Center Storms Research Center Main Collection 10/28/2025   BR 65 .A62 W55 2011 98645661 10/28/2025 13.17 10/28/2025 Book