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    Augustine’s Conversion: A Guide to the Argument of Confessions I-IX
    Augustine’s Conversion: A Guide to the Argument of Confessions I-IX
    Augustine’s Conversion: A Guide to the Argument of Confessions I-IX
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    Augustine’s Conversion: A Guide to the Argument of Confessions I-IX

    By Colin Starnes

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    Augustine’s Conversion: A Guide to the Argument of Confessions I-IX by Colin Starnes
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilfrid Laurier University Press
    Release dateJan 1, 2006
    ISBN9780889205963
    Augustine’s Conversion: A Guide to the Argument of Confessions I-IX
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    Colin Starnes

    Colin Starnes teaches Patristics in the Classics Department at Dalhousie University in Halifax. In addition to publishing numerous articles on the transition from antiquity to the medieval period, he is the author of The New Republic: A Commentary on Book I of More’s Utopia Showing Its Relation to Plato’s Republic (WLU Press, 1990).

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