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Aug 24, 2022 · There are 13 books in his Confessions; nine are biographical narrative, and the final four are a meditative analysis of Augustine’s state of mind and soul at his time of writing.
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3.97. 64,539 ratings3,783 reviews. Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting a life.
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Mar 22, 2015 · William E. Mann (ed.), Augustine's Confessions: Philosophy in Autobiography, Oxford University Press, 2014, 223pp., $65.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780199577552. This is an unusually philosophical — thus very welcome — book about the Confessions. Its aim is to break new ground, and as is normal with such exploration some of the earth turns out to be ...
Jul 25, 2021 · Confessions presents an in-depth examination of Self and Sin. What a wonderful gift to 21st-century readers, whose culture loves to minimize sin, is Augustine’s presentation of its power and destructive grip on human souls.
Jan 29, 2021 · As a young man, Augustine reads Cicero’s Hortensius and “converts” to books. He says, “The book changed my way of feeling. . . . For under its influence my petitions and desires altered” (3.4.7). “More than knowledge about God, witnessing lives transformed by God drove Augustine toward God.”.
Jan 1, 2011 · 141 ratings33 reviews. In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the "Confessions"—what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed.
Augustine wrote the Confessions not long after Christianity became the official state religion of the Roman Empire. Yet, Augustine’s African rivals, the Donatists, glorified the old days of larger-than-life martyrs who had been killed opposing Rome. For Augustine, those days were long gone.
