This volume offers a comprehensive portrait of St.
It also explores his everyday work as a bishop, preacher and interpreter of the Bible..
One chapter is devoted to each of his masterpieces (Confessions, On the Trinity, and City of God) and one to each of his best-known controversies (against Manichees, Donatists, and Pelagians).
Augustine (354-430) drawn from the breadth of his writings and from the long course of his career.
This volume offers a comprehensive portrait of St