Augustine's 'Confessions'
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Augustine's Confessions, written between AD 394 and 400, is an autobiographical work which outlines his youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is one of the great texts of Late Antiquity, the first Western Christian autobiography ever written, and it retains its fascination for philosophers, theologians, historians, and scholars of religious studies today. This Critical Guide engages with Augustine's creative appropriation of the work of his predecessors in theology generally, in metaphysics, and in philosophy as therapy for the soul, and reframes a much discussed - but still poorly understood - passage from the Confessions with respect to recent philosophy. The volume represents the best of contemporary scholarship on Augustine's Confessions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and builds on existing scholarship to develop new insights, explore underappreciated themes, and situate Augustine in the thought of his own day as well as ours.
Thomas Williams
A historian of the early Middle Ages and a former curator at the British Museum, Thomas Williams worked as project curator for the major international exhibition Vikings: Life and Legend. His doctoral research was undertaken at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology and he has taught at UCL and the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow and trustee of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Favorably reviewed in Britain, his previous books Lost Realms, Viking London, and Viking Britain were not published in America, so God’s Hammer is Thomas’s American debut. He lives in England.
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