{"product_id":"augustine-the-african","title":"Augustine the African","description":"\u003cp\u003eAugustine of Hippo (354-430), also known as Saint Augustine, was one of the most influential theologians in history. His writings, including the autobiographical \u003cem\u003eConfessions \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe City of God\u003c\/em\u003e, helped shape the foundations of Christianity and Western philosophy. But for many centuries, Augustine's North African birth and Berber heritage have been simply dismissed. Catherine Conybeare, a world-renowned Augustine scholar, here puts the \"African\" back in Augustine's story. As she relates, his seminal books were written neither in Rome nor in Milan, but in Africa, where he had returned as a wanderer during a perilous time when the Western Roman Empire was crumbling. Using extant letters and other shards of evidence, Conybeare retraces Augustine's travels, revealing how his groundbreaking works emerge from an exile's perspective within an African context. In its depiction of this Christian saint, \u003cem\u003eAugustine the African\u003c\/em\u003e upends conventional wisdom and traces core ideas of Christian thought to their origins on the African continent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1631498525\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781631498527\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Conybeare, Catherine\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Aug 2025)","offer_id":46080784072901,"sku":"9781631498527","price":30.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781631498527.jpg?v=1776040281","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/augustine-the-african","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}