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From: World and I
Date: 20030501
Author:TALIAFERRO, CHARLES

Charles Taliaferro, professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College, is the author of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (Blackwell) and Consciousness and the Mind of God (Cambridge).

Book Info:SAINT AUGUSTINE'S MEMORY 
Confessiones Book Two 
Augustine; Garry Wills (translator) 
Publisher:New York: Viking Press, 2002 
240 pp., $23.95

Why read Augustine now? After September 11, Augustine was the first person I turned to. His great text The City of God was written after the sack of Rome by the fierce Visigoth tribes in the early fifth century. The Roman Empire was in peril, and ...

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