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The Confessions of St. Augustine

Augustine of Hippo

Religion & MysticismEnglish
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Augustine, born in 354 at Thagaste in North Africa, in today's Algeria, speaks to God about his own life: the boyish theft of pears he did not even want, for…

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Author
Augustine of Hippo
Category
Religion & Mysticism
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg

About this book

Augustine, born in 354 at Thagaste in North Africa, in today's Algeria, speaks to God about his own life: the boyish theft of pears he did not even want, for the pleasure of wrongdoing; his student years in Carthage, his mistress and their son; nine years as a follower of the Manichaean religion; his career as a teacher of rhetoric in Rome and Milan; and the prayers of his mother Monica. In a garden in Milan he hears a child's voice chanting 'take up and read', opens the letters of Saint Paul, and is converted. The last books turn to memory, time ('What then is time? If no one asks me, I know') and creation.

Context and significance

Augustine wrote the Confessions around 397, as Bishop of Hippo, today's Annaba, and it is the first great autobiography of the Western world, opening with the famous thought that the human heart is restless until it rests in God. This translation, of 1838, is by Edward Bouverie Pusey. It belongs on the same shelf as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.

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