Augustine of Hippo: A Biography
by Peter Brown
by Peter Brown
Description: "This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery recently of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine has thrown fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of the Confessions and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in north Africa. Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered). He also reviews the changes in scholarship about Augustine since the 1960s. A personal as well as a scholarly fascination infuse the book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed portrait of the bishop of Hippo."
St. Augustine of Hippo
by Hugh Pope, O.P.
Description: “Fr. Hugh Pope’s brilliant survey of St. Augustine’s contributions to literature, philosophy, and history has become a classic of Augustinian scholarship. Fr. Pope writes of the Church’s most illustrious doctor with lucidity, gravity, and erudition. As a result of his profound research into the life and writings of the saint, Augustine is here re-created in his own surroundings of time and place and circumstances, in his spiritual and terrestrial wanderings, in the many and diverse aspects of his character, personality, and spirituality.”