TY - GEN N2 - 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. AB - 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. T1 - Augustine :conversions to confessions / DA - ©2015. CY - New York : AU - Lane Fox, Robin, CN - EBSCOhost CN - BR1720.A9 PB - Basic Books, PP - New York : PY - ©2015. ID - 771889 KW - Christian saints SN - 9780465061570 SN - 0465061575 TI - Augustine :conversions to confessions / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1079178 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1079178 ER -