Serge Lancel, Antonia M. Nevill
St Augustine
Serge Lancel of the University of Grenoble is an acknowledged master of the ancient history of North Africa, and his landmark study if one of the most authoritative treatments of St Augustine ever published.
Addressed to an educated readership, Lancel's biography places Augustine against the colourful background of the Mediterranean world of antiquity, exploring the major influences, events and competing philosophies which were formative for his thought and theology. Attention is given to the essential features of what became both Catholic and Protestant doctrines, the doctrine of grace in controversy with Pelagius, and to Augustine's formidable supporter Julian of Eclanum. The book makes much important new material, and several significant new discoveries in Francophone scholarship, available to English-speaking readers, who are invited to share Lancel's intimate and sympathetic knowledge of the greatest figure of Christian antiquity.
Translated from the French by Antonia M Nevill.
RRP £25.00 Paperback
