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Revealing the remade Augustine.(Augustine: A New Biography; Saint Augustine's Conversion)(Book Review)

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From: National Catholic Reporter
Date: 20050527
Author:Tilley, Maureen

AUGUSTINE: A NEW BIOGRAPHY By James J. O'Donnell Ecco-HarperCollins, 396 pages, $26.95

SAINT AUGUSTINE'S CONVERSION By Garry Wills Viking, 144 pages, $23.95

Augustine's paean to the truth of God reads: "O Beauty ever ancient, ever new." Now what new can be said of this dead man of late antiquity? Readers have had a series of biographies of Augustine (356-430), bishop of Hippo and saint of Western Christianity, beginning with Possidius of Calama, his younger contemporary (died about 440), through the masterful biographies by Peter Brown and Serge Lancel. So why another ...

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