For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the fresh, keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrines of mind and body, wisdom and God. This book explores both the great ruminator on the human condition and the everyday man who set pen to parchment. It challenges many misconceptions--among them the myth of his early sexual excesses. A masterly example of biography in the short form, Garry Wills's book illuminates both the man and the age with the eloquent economy that will introduce to a new generation of readers this once popular genre.
