The Confessions of Saint Augustine
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- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
1 January 1987
Summary
Heartfelt, incisive, and timeless, The Confessions of Saint Augustine has captivated readers for more than fifteen hundred years. Retelling the story of his long struggle with faith and ultimate conversion – the first such spiritual memoir ever recorded – Saint Augustine traces a story of sin, regret, and redemption that is both deeply personal and, at the same time, universal.
Starting with his early life, education, and youthful indiscretions, and following his ascent to influence a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385029551 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0385029551 |
| Author: | St. Augustine |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Image |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1987 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 33mm |
| Series: | Image Classics |
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“In plain words–if you can accept them as plain–Christianity is the life and death and resurrection of Christ going on day after day in the souls of individual men and in the heart of society. It is this Christ-life, this incorporation into the Body of Christ, this union with His death and resurrection as a matter of conscious experience, that St. Augustine wrote of in his Confessions.”
–Thomas Merton
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St. Augustine
Saint Augustine was one of the most influential figures of his era, so much so that his age is known as the Age of Augustine. This was a time of significant transition, and Augustine’s genius was instrumental in shaping the shift from the old world to the new.
He was a leading religious thinker and controversialist, known for his intellectual rigor during a period of intense theological debate. Augustine was also a prolific preacher and author, producing 118 treatises. Among his most celebrated works are The Confessions, a seminal spiritual autobiography, and The City of God, a comprehensive exploration of ancient and early Christian life, thought, and aspirations, which he himself considered his most important work.
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