The work outlines Augustines sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. Augustine of Hippo, in Latin between AD 397 and AD 398. Description Consisting of 13 books, originally written by St.
Book VIII - Conversion to Christianity and instruction by Simplicianus on how to convert others (age 32).Book VII - Moving towards a greater understanding of God (age 31).Book VI - Moving towards Catholicism under the influence of St.Book V - Moving away from Manichaeism under the influence of St.Augustine’s Confessions is a book about making meaning out of life, about looking back in. Book IV - Loss of a friend and studies in Aristotle and the fit and the fair (age 20-29). The earliest portrait of Saint Augustine in a 6th century fresco, Lateran, Rome.Book III - Studies at Carthage, conversion to Manichaeism, and continued indulgence in lust (age 16-19).Book II - Fall amongst bad companions, which led to thievery and lust.Book I - Infancy and boyhood up to age 14.
There is something profoundly compelling in the rigorous, uncompromising manner in which Augustine describes the way he consciously, by an ongoing act of. 73148 The Confessions of Saint Augustine Albert Outler Augustine of Hippo Manuscript on vellum. Confession, it is said, is good for the soul and the Confessions of Saint Augustine of Hippo are good for any person’s soul, regardless of his or her religious or philosophical beliefs.
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