Saint Augustine's Childhood Confessions by Garry Wills Advent traditions

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Christianity has long been regarded as viewing the body as a threat to a person's spiritual nature and of denying its sexual dimension

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Saint Augustine's Childhood Confessions by Garry Wills Advent traditionsThe traditional title for St. Augustine's classic devotional work The Confessions can be misleading. Because it is a transliteration, not a translation, of the Latin title, it encourages readers to think of the work as an autobiography, when in fact it is a prayer. Saint Augustine's Childhood, Garry Wills's translation of the first book of the Confessiones renders the work in fresh language, corrects scores of misinterpretations, and explains the