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Original Title:	Confessiones
ISBN:	0192833723 (ISBN13: 9780192833723)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Augustine of Hippo, Ambrose

Confessions Paperback | Pages: 341 pages

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Title	:	Confessions
Author	:	Augustine of Hippo
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Oxford World's Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 341 pages
Published	:	June 25th 1998 by Oxford University Press (first published 397)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Classics. Religion. Theology. Nonfiction. Biography. Christian

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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. Books I-IV are concerned with infancy and learning to talk, schooldays, sexual desire and adolescent rebellion, intense friendships and intellectual exploration. Augustine evolves and analyses his past with all the resources of the reading which shaped his mind: Virgil and Cicero, Neoplatonism and the Bible. This volume, which aims to be usable by students who are new to Augustine, alerts readers to the verbal echoes and allusions of Augustine's brilliant and varied Latin, and explains his theological and philosophical questioning of what God is and what it is to be human. The edition is intended for use by students and scholars of Latin literature, theology and Church history.

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"Day after day I postponed living in you, but I never put off the death which I died each day in myself. I longed for a life of happiness but I was frightened to approach it in its own domain; and yet, while I fled from it, I still searched for it." Reading Augustine of Hippo's Confessions is like plunging into a deep, dark abyss and seeing a slither of light at the far side of the endless tunnel, unaware of whether you reach it or not; for Confessions is a proto-existentialist work of a man

I am going to take my time with this book. It'd be the first time I read this sort of thing just for the joy of it. I'm just a bit familiar with St. Augustine and while I know this can be a hard read due to my personal beliefs, it is always great to read what other people's take on religion, love, hate and the human meaning.

This was a newer translation that completely spoke to me. What I especially enjoyed was that all the scripture that he referenced in his work was noted down. It took me a while to read this one because I read all of the Bible passages noted in the work.I can see way this book has been such an inspiration for people over the years. While reading this I was highlighting like crazy in my Bible app. Word of advice, if you read this edition and want to read all the passages, having a Bible app will

This experience sufficiently illuminates the truth that free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion.- Augustine, ConfessionsSublime and OriginalI cant believe it has taken me so long to read Augustines Confessions. I might not agree with some of his conclusions (my Christian framework, Mormon*, would be considered a heresy by Augustine), but his influence on Christianity, philosophy, and the West cant be ignored. I read this book in little bits on Sunday during

Why then should I be concerned for human readers to hear my confessions? It is not they who are going to heal my sicknesses. The human race is inquisitive about other peoples lives, but negligent to correct their own.I was very excited to read this book; Confessions by St Augustine. Having been an inspiration to so many including John Calvin, Martin Luther and so many others. It is a memoir like few others. One of the first of its kind. In that fact alone my curiosity was peaked. To read of a

St. Augustines Confessions is such a lovely and honest book. Id recommend it to everyone, if people who arent remotely religious. Its one of those works that really manages to encapsulate certain feelings and articulate them in ways that are clear but also sort of startling in their clarity, saying obvious things in ways youd never quite thought of before. Take this bit from Book 8: In my heart I kept saying Let it be now, let it be now! and merely by saying this I was on the point of making the

Having read the comments of a GR friend about the difficulty of reading the unabridged Confessions, I'm glad it was this excerpted version that I ended up with instead. (I inherited it from a friend who went abroad and couldn't take his books with him.) I have to say, even this edition was challenging at times: I had to reread a lot of paragraphs to unpack the author's meaning, and some of them were still so dense to me that I just gave up and moved on.Nevertheless, I'm very glad to have finally