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The Confessions of St. Augustine , a passionate, deeply honest autobiographical account of Augustine's journey toward faith, has been a source of spiritual guidance and intellectual nourishment for millions of people throught the centuries. While Augustine is regarded as one of Christianity's greatest theologians, the enduring and universal appeal of the Confessions is undoubtedly in Augustine's humanity--in his fervent examinations of his own struggles, conflicts, and temptations, and in his intensely personal quest for God. This modern edition of the Confessions will offer a profound source of spiritual enlightenment to today's reader.

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• Introduction(p. v)
• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• Book I Infancy to Age Fifteen(p. 1)
• Book II Object of These Confessions(p. 21)
• Book III From Age Sixteen to Eighteen(p. 33)
• Book IV From Age Eighteen to Twenty-seven(p. 49)
• Book V At Age Twenty-eight(p. 68)
• Book VI At Age Twenty-nine(p. 87)
• Book VII At Age Thirty(p. 109)
• Book VIII At Age Thirty-one(p. 133)
• Book IX At Age Thirty-two(p. 155)
• Book X The Examined Life(p. 179)
• Book XI Inquiry into Creation and Time(p. 224)
• Book XII Further Inquiry into the Mystery of Creation(p. 251)
• Book XIII From Inquiry to Praise(p. 280)
• Notes(p. 317)

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Saint Augustine was born to a Catholic mother and a pagan father on November 13, 354, at Thagaste, near Algiers. He studied Latin literature and later taught rhetoric in Rome and Milan. He originally joined the Manicheans, a religious sect, but grew unhappy with some of their philosophies. After his conversion to Christianity and his baptism in 387, Augustine developed his own approach to philosophy and theology, accommodating a variety of methods and different perspectives. He believed that the grace of Christ was indispensable to human freedom, and he framed the concepts of original sin and just war. His thoughts greatly influenced the medieval worldview.

One of Augustine's major goals was a single, unified church. He was ordained a priest in 391 and appointed Bishop of Hippo, in Roman Africa, in 396. Augustine was one of the most prolific Latin authors in terms of surviving works, and the list of his works consists of more than one hundred separate titles. His writings and arguments with other sects include the Donatists and the Pelagians. On the Trinity, The City of God, and On Nature and Grace are some of his important writings. Confessions, which is considered his masterpiece, is an autobiographical work that recounts his restless youth and details the spiritual experiences that led him to Christianity. Many of Augustine's ideas, such as those concerning sin and predestination, became integral to the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church.

In the Catholic Church he is a saint and pre-eminent Doctor of the Church, and the patron of the Augustinians. He is the patron saint of brewers, printers, and theologians.

Augustine died on August 28, 430.

(Bowker Author Biography)