Saint Augustine

by Serge Lancel

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Addressed to an educated general readership, Lancel's authoritative study places St Augustine against the colourful background of the Mediterranean world of antiquity, exploring the major influences, events and competing philosophies which were formative for his thought and theology. Attention is given to the essential features of what became both Catholic and Protestant doctrines, the dotrine of grace in controversy with Pelagius and to Augustine's formidable supporter Julian of Eclanum. This translation invites English-speaking readers to share in Lancel's intimate and sympathetic knowledge of one of the greatest figures in Christian antiquity.… (more)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Lancel, Serge	Author	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Kamocsay, Ildikó	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Nevill, Antonia	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Saint Augustin

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Saint Augustin

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1999-02-10 (1e édition originale française ∙ Grande biographie ∙ Fayard)

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Augustine of Hippo, 354-430

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À la mémoire d'Henri-Irénée Marrou
et d'Anne-Marie La Bonnardière,
et à André Mandouze.
Je leur dois d'avoir un peu approché l'enfant de Thagaste,
l'évêque d'Hippone, le docteur de la grâce.

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L'image qui figure sur la couverture de ce livre est considérée comme le plus ancien portrait de saint Augustin. Son antiquité n'est pas douteuse, puisque cette peinture à fresque du Latran, à Rome, est communément datée du milieu du VIe siècle. [...]

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Thagaste

Naguère encore, Souk-Ahras, une grosse bourgade des confins algéro-tunisiens, demeurait l'image même, à peine altérée, de ces petites villes de colonisation que la France avait implantées en Algérie dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, tracées dans la belle illusion qu'en cette terre l'Histoire reprenait un cours seulement interrompu et que le coq gaulois y recueillait l'héritage de la louve romaine : l'héritage des deux Rome, l'impériale et la chrétienne. [...]

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Addressed to an educated general readership, Lancel's authoritative study places St Augustine against the colourful background of the Mediterranean world of antiquity, exploring the major influences, events and competing philosophies which were formative for his thought and theology. Attention is given to the essential features of what became both Catholic and Protestant doctrines, the dotrine of grace in controversy with Pelagius and to Augustine's formidable supporter Julian of Eclanum. This translation invites English-speaking readers to share in Lancel's intimate and sympathetic knowledge of one of the greatest figures in Christian antiquity.

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