<br> The ten chapters of this volume discuss Augustine's views of free choice, vocation, creation, and other societal questions, while it also reveals biographical facts of the sage's life. --Worship and Arts<p><br> The book is a marvel of comprehension achieved without a loss of clarity. As a connected account of Augustine, the thinker, it will doubtless stand as among the most popular which now exist. --International Philosophical Quarterly<p><br> I do not know of any other summary of the mind of Augustine which serves the reader so well. --History: Reviews of New Books<p><br> The best brief introduction to Augustine's context and thought for the beginning undergraduate. Excellent for history, philosophy, and religion courses--clear, elegant, thorough. --Robert I. Burns, University of California, Los Angeles<p><br> All the main thought elements of Augustine set in the attracively told narrative of a fascinating life. --John J. Glanville, San Francisco State University<p><br>