Martin Cyril D'Arcy

"For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis has won him a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrines of mind and body, wisdom and God."--BOOK JACKET. "Saint Augustine explores both the great ruminator on the human condition and the everyday man who set pen to parchment. It challenges many misconceptions - among them the myth of his early sexual excesses. Garry Wills's Saint Augustine illuminates both the man and the age with the eloquent economy that will introduce to a new generation of readers this once popular genre."--BOOK JACKET.

Explains why the idea of man is so inextricably bound up with the idea of God, and man's existence with God's, that man tends to lose his identity when he thinks of himself outside the context of God.

"Six talks [given] at the invitation of the B. B. C. on the wireless in the autumn of 1942."--Pref.