@article{771889, author = {Lane Fox, Robin,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/771889}, title = {Augustine : conversions to confessions /}, publisher = {Basic Books,}, abstract = {ASaint Augustine is one of the most influential figures in all of Christianity, yet his path to sainthood was by no means assured. Born in AD 354 to a pagan father and a Christian mother, Augustine spent the first thirty years of his life struggling to understand the nature of God and his world. He learned about Christianity as a child but was never baptized, choosing instead to immerse himself in the study of rhetoric, Manicheanism, and then Neoplatonism--all the while indulging in a life of lust and greed. In AugustineConfessions Magisterial and beautifully written, Augustine.}, recid = {771889}, pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 657 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :}, address = {New York :}, year = {2015}, }