The Story of Saint Augustine

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Augustine was a major writer and antiquity, third, fourth century. He wrote a sort of autobiographical the confession. Augustine articulates things that are quite vivid vividly felt by even contemporary people. And one of the things that strike your readings in Augustine is how modern and contemporary he seems.

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Roosevelt Montás. A Senior Lecturer at Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He was Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum at Columbia College from 2008 to 2018. . a renaissance man who loves literature and writing, as well as being the director of Columbia University's Freedom and Citizenship Program.He speaks and writes on the history, meaning, and future of liberal education and is author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation