| St. Augustine in 90 Minutes Contributor(s): Strathern, Paul (Author), Vance, Simon (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1433267985 ISBN-13: 9781433267987 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $24.30 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: In St. Augustine in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of St. Augustines life and ideas and explains their influence on mans struggle to understand his existence in the world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical - Philosophy | Religious |
| Dewey: 189 |
| Series: In 90 Minutes |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.5" W x 6.2" (0.40 lbs) 1 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Theometrics - Secular |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Augustine's spiritual crisis and conversion to Christianity, detailed in his Confessions, ultimately led him to his major contribution to philosophy: the fusion of the two doctrines of Christianity and Neoplatonism. This not only provided Christianity with a strong intellectual backing but tied it to the Greek tradition of philosophy, which helped keep the flame of philosophy burning, however dimly, through the Dark Ages. Augustine also produced important philosophic ideas of his own, including theories of time and subjective knowledge that anticipated by many centuries the work of Kant and Descartes. In St. Augustine in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of St. Augustine's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Strathern, Paul: - Paul Strathern earned a degree in philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, and has lectured in philosophy and mathematics. The author of many nonfiction books and of articles for numerous publications, he has also written several novels and has won the Somerset Maugham Prize. He lives and writes in London. Vance, Simon: -Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over fifty Earphones Awards and thirteen prestigious Audie Awards. He was named Booklist's very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009. |
