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Books - St. Augustine Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
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This is a very nice translation of Augustine's work. In the text itself, there are footnotes to further explain certian facts (like Augustine mentioning an acient ref. to Plato or something). Also, it puts Biblical references in quotations for things that Augustine writes - all in all, I am very satisfied with this version of Augustine's work, and would highly recommend it.
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This book belongs on everyone's bookshelf regardless of your philosophy. I highly recommend reading (in conjunction with this book) "That Same Flower" by Jostein Gaarder which is most pertinent to "Confessions" and exposes many ironies in Saint Augustine's life.
"Confessions" covers everything from Augustine's struggles with the morality of sexual relations with a women to the concept of what time really is. This book is very engaging to read and I would recommend it to anyone I know (and have)!
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If only I could read Latin.
Augustine is revered by both Catholics and Protestants. God had gifted Augustine with many gifts: Linguist, Orator, Philosopher. But this book is Augustine's story of how he realized his greatest gift of all: Salvation.
Henry Chadwick has done a fantastic job brining the life of Augustine's Latin into English.
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Before the Reformation; before Trent made Catholicism, Roman; before Orthodoxy split with the West; there was the orthodox catholic (universal) church in its earliest form and one of the Church's best witnesses was Augustine.
This writing, which is a humble autobiography, is the most sublime of that first Millennium, and I think - still the finest Christian autobiography. He is not unctious and he doesn't rant. He makes theology seem so easy and God so near.
Find the answer at the beginning.
Augustine takes us to the limit of human understanding in theology, which becomes humble obedience before the One, who still holds the great mysteries.
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The modern "tell-all-unofficial biography" is not something we came up with recently. In St. Augustine's day, this book was innovative as it was shocking: nobody in Antiquity wrote about themselves, at leat not in the way St. Augustine does. Period. And in theis spiritual autobiography, St. Augustine holds no bars. From mischievous youth to a man striving for holiness, this is Augustin unplugged. The real killer comes in the last four books on Memory, Time, and Creation. From a man's journey to God we read about God reaching to save all men and women. A must-have book for anyone serious about his/her spiritual life.
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