{"product_id":"augustines-confessions-a-biography-9780691217642","title":"Augustine's Confessions: A Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine's \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Wills also addresses the reception of the book, from controversy in its own time and relative neglect during the Middle Ages to a renewed prominence beginning in the fourteenth century and persisting to today, when the \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e has become an object of interest not just for Christians but also historians, philosophers, psychiatrists, and literary critics. With clarity and skill, Wills provides an unparalleled introduction to a spiritual classic that is one of the most important books in the Christian and Western traditions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691217642\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176","brand":"Garry Wills","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40367507407029,"sku":"9780691217642","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ec27a3da-bcb8-49f8-a646-57c4cffc41f2.jpg?v=1624981706","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/augustines-confessions-a-biography-9780691217642","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}