The Confessions of Saint Augustine - Softcover

Augustine, Saint

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9355223420 ISBN 13: 9789355223425

Publisher: Classy Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

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.
Retelling the story of his long struggle with faith and ultimate conversion—the first such spiritual memoir ever recorded—Saint Augustine traces a story of sin, regret, and redemption that is both deeply personal and, at the same time, universal.
Starting with his early life, education, and youthful indiscretions, and following his ascent to influence as a teacher of rhetoric in Hippo, Rome, and Milan, Augustine is brutally honest about his proud and ambitious youth. In time, his early loves grow cold and the luster of worldly success fades, leaving him filled with a sense of inner absence, until a movement toward Christian faith takes hold, eventually leading to conversion and the flourishing of a new life. Philosophically and theologically brilliant, sincere in its feeling, and both grounded in history and strikingly contemporary in its resonance.
Heartfelt, incisive, and timeless, The Confessions of Saint Augustine has captivated readers for more than fifteen hundred years. The Confessions of Saint Augustine is a timeless classic that will persist as long as humanity continues to long for meaning in life and peace of soul.

Edition details

• Publisher: Classy Publishing
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9355223420
• ISBN 13: 9789355223425
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208