Augustine's Confessions

11/06/2025 34 min

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Journey with Augustine in his Confessions: A raw, introspective quest for God. Explore his struggles with sin, intellectual wanderings, and profound conversion. A foundational work on faith, memory, and the restless human heart.Works CitedAugustine, Saint. Confessions. Translated by Henry Chadwick, Oxford University Press, 1998. Oxford World's Classics.---. Confessions. Translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin, Penguin Classics, 1961.---. Expositions on the Book of Psalms. Translated by Philip Schaff, The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 1894.---. The Confessions. Translated by Maria Boulding, O.S.B., edited by John E. Rotelle, O.S.A., vol. 1, New City Press, 1997. The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century.[Unattributed]. "AUGUSTINE AND MANICHAEISM." n.d. This source mentions "rick jones" and "Robert D. Wallin" as maintaining the page with a copyright of 1999, but lacks a specific title or publisher for formal citation.[Unattributed]. "AUGUSTINE, SCRIPTURE, AND CITY OF GOD." Open Journal Systems, n.d. This excerpt does not provide sufficient information (author, article title, volume/issue, specific date) for a complete citation.[Unattributed]. "Chapter 2. Dialogue and Debate in Late Antiquity." The Center for Hellenic Studies, n.d. This chapter excerpt lacks specific author, full book title, and publication date.[Unattributed]. "Saint Augustine's Confessions: The Odyssey of Soul (review)." Journal of the History of Philosophy, p. 203, 2008. Project MUSE, launched 1 Jan. 2008. The author of this review is not specified in the provided excerpt.[Unattributed]. "St Augustine's Use of the Psalms." The Way, n.d. This excerpt does not provide sufficient information (author, article title, volume/issue, specific date) for a complete citation.[Unattributed]. "The Transforming Message of Romans." Modern Reformation, n.d. This excerpt does not provide sufficient information (author, article title, volume/issue, specific date) for a complete citation.Brown, Peter. Augustine of Hippo. 1967. This work is inferred from a bibliographic reference within the provided sources.Canty, Aaron. "Saint Paul in Augustine." A Companion to St. Paul in the Middle Ages, edited by Aaron Canty, vol. 39, Brill, 2013, pp. 115–142. Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004236721_006.Eastman, Regina. "Shameless Shame: St. Augustine's Confessions." Anthós Journal (1990-1996), vol. 1, no. 2, 1991, Article 5. PDXScholar, https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/anthos_archives/vol1/iss2/5.Farrell, James M. "The Rhetoric(s) of St. Augustine's Confessions." Augustinian Studies, vol. 39, no. 2, 2008, pp. 265–291. THE AUGUSTINIAN INSTITUTE at Villanova University, doi:0.5840/augstudies200839224.Fitzgerald, Allan D., editor. Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia. Eerdmans, 1999.Harmless, William, editor. Augustine in His Own Words. The Catholic University of America Press, 2010.Kraley, Shon H. "Neoplatonic Influences in Augustine's Confessions." Anthós Journal (1990-1996), vol. 1, no. 1, 1990, Article 6. PDXScholar, https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/anthos_archives/vol1/iss1/6.Krause, Paul. "The Fall of Soul from Plotinus to Augustine." VoegelinView, n.d. The article's specific publication date is not provided in the excerpt.Letteney, Mark. The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations. Cambridge University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009363341.Mears, Preston Kennard, Jr. "St. Augustine and Romans 7:7-25: An Analysis of Use and Influences." 1966. Bachelor of Divinity thesis, The Episcopal Theological School. Internet Archive.Mellone, Sydney Herbert. Leaders of Early Christian Thought. The Lindsey Press, 1954.Wickham Lionel, R., and Caroline P. Bammel. "Augustine's Paradoxes." Christian Faith and Greek Philosophy in Late Antiquity, Brill, pp. 52–69. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004312852_005.