CONFESSIONS

This translation of Augustine’s most popular work was done by Maria Boulding and is considered “of a different level of excellence from practically anything else on the market” (Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury).

The Confessions of Saint Augustine is considered the all-time number one Christian classic. Augustine undertook his greatest piece of writing with the conviction that God wanted him to make this confession. The Confessions are, in fact, an extended poetic, passionate, intimate prayer. Augustine was probably forty-three when he began this endeavor. He had been a baptized Catholic for ten years, a priest for six, and a bishop for only two. His pre-baptismal life raised questions in the community. Was his conversion genuine? The first hearers were captivated, as many millions have been over the following sixteen centuries. His experience of God speaks to us across time with little need for transpositions. This new translation masterfully captures his experience.
Table of Contents:
Introduction

Book I
Infancy and Boyhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Book II
Adolescence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Book III
Student Years at Carthage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Book IV
Augustine the Manichee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Book V
Faustus at Carthage, Augustine to Rome and Milan . . . . . . . . . . 76
Book VI
Milan, 385: Progress, Friends, Perplexities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Book VII
Neo-Platonism Frees Augustine’s Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Book VIII
Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Book IX
Death and Rebirth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Book X
Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Book XI
Time and Eternity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Book XII
Heaven and Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Book XIII
The Days of Creation, Prophecy of the Church . . . . . . . . . . . . 275