Confessions 【電子書籍】[ Anthony Esolen PhD ]

＜p＞＜em＞“For you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”＜/em＞ ーSaint Augustine of Hippo＜/p＞ ＜p＞Of all the autobiographies ever written by mere mortals, Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo is the greatest. In this masterpiece, you will find a doctor of the Church longing for the true Doctor of the soul, Christ. Taking us from Augustine's roots in Africa to his encounters with his spiritual father Saint Ambrose in Milan, from his battle against his concupiscence to his famed conversion, Confessions is itself a veritable pilgrimage to the threshold of the new Jerusalem. Indeed, its end is not biography but a breathtaking meditation on time and memory, on the human soul and the material world, and on the creative and redemptive power of God himself.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In Dr. Anthony Esolen's new translation, the esteemed translator and author seeks to retain and reveal the figurative by hewing as closely as possible to the literal, both in the significance of in．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る