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For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the enthusiastic eye of your copy writer whose own intellectual evaluation won him a Pulitzer Prize, Gary Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in traditional philosophy enlightened his interpretation of Christian doctrine. Saint Augustine explores Augustine's thought as well as the day-to-day man who arranged pen to parchment. It issues many misconceptions, including those regarding his early on erotic excesses. It portrays Augustine as being "peripheral in his day, a provincial on the margins of traditional culture" who didn't even know Greek. Here is a lively and incisive family portrait of one who helped shape Western thinking.