The Confessions, Revised (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, Vol. 1) by St. Augustine (2001) Paperback

by Augustine of Hippo

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About the author

Early church father and philosopher Saint Augustine served from 396 as the bishop of Hippo in present-day Algeria and through such writings as the autobiographical Confessions in 397 and the voluminous City of God from 413 to 426 profoundly influenced Christianity, argued against Manichaeism and Donatism, and helped to establish the doctrine of original sin.

An Augustinian follows the principles and doctrines of Saint Augustine.

People also know Aurelius Augustinus in English of Regius (Annaba). From the Africa province of the Roman Empire, people generally consider this Latin theologian of the greatest thinkers of all times. He very developed the west. According to Jerome, a contemporary, Augustine renewed "the ancient Faith."

The Neo-Platonism of Plotinus afterward heavily weighed his years. After conversion and his baptism in 387, Augustine developed his own approach to theology and accommodated a variety of methods and different perspectives. He believed in the indispensable grace to human freedom and framed the concept of just war. When the Western Roman Empire started to disintegrate from the material earth, Augustine developed the concept of the distinct Catholic spirituality in a book of the same name. He thought the medieval worldview. Augustine closely identified with the community that worshiped the Trinity. The Catholics and the Anglican communion revere this preeminent doctor. Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider his due teaching on salvation and divine grace of the theology of the Reformation. The Eastern Orthodox also consider him. He carries the additional title of blessed. The Orthodox call him "Blessed Augustine" or "Saint Augustine the Blessed."

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Reviews

[Alejandro Guillen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I didn’t quite finish it (I had like 20 pages left). I think it is an amazing work. There were tons of beautiful moments, and really hard questions. The way Augustine writes can be very dense and complex, and yet very personal and tender.

I struggled in the more philosophical sections because I’m not familiar with Neo-platonism and Greek metaphysics yet, so I’m planning to get a Spanish translation copy once I get those foundations done, hoping that will help me understand it better.

“We need not fear to find no home again
Because we have fallen away from it;
While we are absent our home falls not to ruins, for our home is your eternity.”