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Confessions (Hardcover)
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Confessions (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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St. Augustine's Confessions is one of the most important works in
the history of literature and Christian thought. Written around
397, when Augustine was the Christian bishop of Hippo (in
modern-day Algeria), the Confessions were designed both to
spiritually educate those who already shared Augustine's faith, and
to convert those who did not. Augustine did this through the
original maneuver of writing what is now recognized as being the
first Western autobiography - letting readers share in his own
experiences of youth, sin, and eventual conversion. The Confessions
are a perfect example of using reasoning to subtly bring readers
around to a particular point of view - with Augustine inviting them
to accompany him on his own spiritual journey towards God so they
could make their own conversion. Carefully structured, the
Confessions run from describing the first 43 years of Augustine's
life in North Africa and Italy, to discussing the nature of memory,
before moving on to analyzing the Bible itself. In order, the
sections form a carefully structured argument, moving from the
personal to the philosophical to the contemplative. In the hundreds
of years since they were first published, they have persuaded
hundreds of thousands of readers to recognize towards the same God
that Augustine himself worshipped.
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