The Confessions of St. Augustine (Revised) (Dover Thrift Editions: Religion)

Marc Notes:
Originally published: Confessions. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1955, in series: Library of Christian classics (Philadelphia).

Table of Contents:
Foreword / Mark G. Henninger -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Book I. Infancy to Age Fifteen -- Book II. Object of These Confessions -- Book III. From Age Sixteen to Eighteen -- Book IV. From Age Eighteen to Twenty-seven -- Book V. At Age Twenty-eight -- Book VI. At Age Twenty-nine -- Book VII. At Age Thirty -- Book VIII. At Age Thirty-one -- Book IX. At Age Thirty-two -- Book X. The Examined Life -- Book XI. Inquiry into Creation and Time -- Book XII. Further Inquiry into the Mystery of Creation -- Book XIII. From Inquiry to Praise -- Notes.

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More than an autobiography, The Confessions of St. Augustine is one of the most influential religious books in the Christian tradition. A great work of Western literature, it recalls crucial events and episodes in the author's life, in particular, life with his devoutly Christian mother and his origins in rural Algeria in the mid-fourth century A.D.; the rise to a lavish life at the imperial court in Milan; his struggle with sexual desires; eventual renunciation of secular ambitions and marriage; and recovery of his Catholic faith.
This intensely personal narrative -- among the first in which self-analysis was used to describe spiritual and emotional experiences -- provides a detailed, classic recounting of one man's internal struggles and religious conversion. The book will be useful to anyone interested in the impact made by one of the foremost leaders in the development of Christian thought.