Review of Confessions (Paperback)
“The Confessions” is undoubtedly one of the great books of western civilization, and the paradigm of the autobiography genre. But Henry Chadwick’s modern translation available through Oxford UniversityPress is a more vibrant and exacting translation. Pusey’s translation istoo Victorian, which casts too much of the Patristic writer in a Victorianmode of being. Augustine was a preeminent rhetorician, which comes out morebrilliantly in Chadwick’s translation. Moreover, the philosophicalarguments advanced by Augustine are more clearly stated in the Chadwicktranslation. The hardcover or paperback version from Oxford isn’t any moreexpensive, but significantly better translated.
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