Augustine · Translated by E. B. Pusey
Confessions
Follow Augustine’s searching account of desire and conversion into questions about memory, time, creation, and the difficulty of knowing oneself.
Contents
- Book I: Childhood, Praise, and Restlessness
- Book II: Youth, Desire, and the Theft of Pears
- Book III: Carthage, Love, and the Manichaeans
- Book IV: Grief, Friendship, and False Beauty
- Book V: Faustus, Ambrose, and Leaving Manichaeism
- Book VI: Milan, Ambition, and Moral Hesitation
- Book VII: Platonism, Evil, and the Search for God
- Book VIII: Conversion in the Garden
- Book IX: Baptism, Monica, and Grief
- Book X: Memory, Desire, and the Search Within
- Book XI: Time and Creation
- Book XII: Genesis, Heaven and Earth
- Book XIII: Creation, Spirit, and Rest
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Augustine · Translated by E. B. Pusey. Digital source: Project Gutenberg, ebook 3296. This reading text follows the edition used in our interactive reader.
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