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Description
In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent... read more
First Sentence
Thou calledst and criest aloud to me; thou even breakedst open my deafness: thou shinest thine beams upon me, and hath put my blindness to flight: thou didst most fragrantly blow upon me, and I drew in my breath and I pant after thee; I tasted thee, and now do hunger and thirst after thee; thou didst touch me, and I even burn again to enjoy thy peace.
Table of Contents
Book I - Childhood
Book II - The Ills of Idleness
Book III - Residence at Carthage
Book IV - Augustine and the Manichaeans
Book V - In Rome and Milan
Book VI - Perplexities and Vacillations
Book VII - The Divinity of the Word
Book VIII - The Struggle of Conversion
Book IX - The Grace of Baptism
Book X - The Mysterious Force of Memory
Book XI - Of God and the Nature of Time
Book XII - The Depth of Holy Scripture
Book XIII - The Harmony of Creation
Authors & Contributors
- Augustine (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Paul M. Bechtel
- Jean-Franc?ois Lyotard (Author)
- Warren W. Wiersbe
- Henry Chadwick
- Hal McElwaine Helms
- R. S. Pine-Coffin
- John K. Ryan
- W. Watts
- Rex Warner (Author)
- Edward Bouverie Pusey (Translator)
- Elaine Raphael (Illustrator)
- Don Bolognese (Illustrator)
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