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Revealing the remade Augustine.

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 27-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Revealing the remade Augustine.(Augustine: A New Biography; Saint Augustine's Conversion)(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
AUGUSTINE: A NEW BIOGRAPHY By James J. O'Donnell Ecco-HarperCollins, 396 pages, $26.95

SAINT AUGUSTINE'S CONVERSION By Garry Wills Viking, 144 pages, $23.95

Augustine's paean to the truth of God reads: "O Beauty ever ancient, ever new." Now what new can be said of this dead man of late antiquity? Readers have had a series of biographies of Augustine (356-430), bishop of Hippo and saint of Western Christianity, beginning with Possidius of Calama, his younger contemporary (died about 440), through the masterful biographies by Peter Brown and Serge Lancel. So why another biography? Is there really anything new?

Yes and no.

In the last half-century, scholars have discovered materials only recently attributed to Augustine. Dr. Brown handled them in an appendix to his second edition of Augustine: A Biography. Dr. Lancel integrated them throughout his text. A respected...

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