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📖 Unlock Augustine’s timeless wisdom with the definitive edition everyone’s talking about!
Confessions (Hackett Classics) features Frank Sheed’s acclaimed 1944 translation, enhanced with dual chapter numbering, detailed notes, and a magisterial introduction by Peter Brown. This edition is widely regarded as the best English version available, boasting a 4.7-star rating from 467 reviews and ranking highly in Catholic Saints and Theology categories.
| Best Sellers Rank | 97,326 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 54 in Catholic Saints 148 in Philosophy of Theology 641 in Religious History of Christianity |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 467 Reviews |
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Best version
Frank Sheed translates beautifully
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The best translation we have
This is an extremely welcome second edition of F.J. Sheed's 1944 translation, which is both close to the original in wording and style (unlike, say, the Chadwick or the Pinecoffin translations) and yet a fine piece of English (unlike the 19th-century translations I have seen). This new edition has several advantages over the original 1944 edition: very few changes have been made to the text, but it includes both sets of chapter numbers (the omission of one set in Sheed was a major drawback), useful notes and index, and a magisterial introduction by Peter Brown, the 'doyen' of Augustine and late antique studies in the English-speaking world. This is surely the best English edition of the work to date.
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