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In Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter, Margaret Miles weaves her memoirs together with refl ections on Augustine's Confessions. Having read and reread Augustine's Confessions, in admiration as well as frustration, over the past thirty-five years, Miles brings her memories of childhood and youth in a fundamentalist home into conversation with Augustine's effort to understand his life. The result is a fascinating work of autobiographical and theological reflection. This project brings together a rare combination of insights on fundamentalists' convictions and habits of mind. Such reflections are especially urgent in this time in which fundamentalism is prominent in political and social discourse.

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...an autobiography with a difference. Church Times, 19 July 2013

"""...an autobiography with a difference."" Church Times, 19 July 2013"

- an autobiography with a difference. Church Times, 19 July 2013

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Margaret R. Miles is Emerita Professor of Historical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. She is the author of A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350 - 1750 (2008) and co-author with Hiroko Sakomura of Getting Here from There: Conversations on Life and Work, also published by the Lutterworth Press.

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