The Confessions of Saint Augustine: A Modern Translation with Introduction (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Modern Translations) by St. Augustine

THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE: A MODERN TRANSLATION The classic spiritual autobiography—newly rendered in clear, contemporary English. In The Confessions, Augustine of Hippo recounts his restless search for truth—from youthful ambition and distraction to a life transformed by grace—and then turns to profound meditation on memory, time, Scripture, and creation. This edition offers a faithful, readable translation with a crisp orientation to Augustine’s world and thought. WHAT’S INSIDE? Book I — Childhood, infancy, and the God who already knows us. Book II — Adolescence and the theft of the pears: sin as disordered love. Book III — Studies at Carthage, Manichaeism, and the first glimpse of beauty “so ancient and so new.” Book IV — Ambition, rhetoric, astrology, and the searing grief of a friend’s death. Book V — To Rome and Milan; meeting Bishop Ambrose and unlearning error. Book VI — Restlessness deepens; Monica’s prayers; a heart divided. Book VII — Neoplatonism and the problem of evil: God as immutable Good. Book VIII — Crisis and surrender: the garden at Milan and conversion. Read more