The Retractationes of Saint Augustine

In the year 427, when Saint Augustine was seventy-two years of age, he began to work on a treatise which he called the Retractationes. This was a task he had been wanting to accomplish since 412, when the idea first occurred to him, as he confessed to Marcellinus,1 “to gather together and point out,...

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Main Author: Eller, Meredith F. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1949
In: Church history
Year: 1949, Volume: 18, Issue: 3, Pages: 172-183
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