The Confessions of St. Augustin by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustin: A Spiritual Journey and Reflections on Faith

by Augustine of Hippo

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317 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 9, 2021

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

[Carter Story · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was absolutely glorious diving into the world of Augustine. His testimony and dialogue with the Lord utterly amazed me. He drew me nearer to the Lord with joy as he recounted his life story and made me reflect with greater awe on my own story. Especially through his ability to make such ordinary things extraordinary by looking at them through the lense of God working supernaturally to bring them about. Later on the philosophical thoughts of Augustine were far above my head and I got really confused. I’m gonna give myself 3 stars for that instead of the book though.

[Alex Furst · Rating 2 out of 5]

Confessions by Saint Augustine.
2/5 rating.
Book #8 of 2020. Read February 17, 2020.

I do not understand the hype for this book at all! I have read religious books which are beautiful and bring up some good points; this book did neither.

The first half of the book I would have considered a 1/5 rating, as it fluctuated between Augustine wallowing in his past depravity and him lying prostrate in over-the-top worship of God. He seemed to relish in how awful he was before his conversion which I thought was so antithetical to the whole point of penitence.

I never knew I would be so ecstatic to hear about someone's conversion until it led to Augustine going onto other topics besides the evilness of his former days. The second half of the book was really just complete drivel. He would ask worthwhile questions then proceed to either not really answer them, or use some flawed logic to come up with an unconvincing answer (and don't even get me started on his mention of the ontological argument!). After this, he has a whole bunch of not-really related topics about memory and time and other things.

Overall, the second half saved this book from being completely horrendous, but I was definitely happy to get the damn thing over with.

Quotes:
"Man it is who says this, and you have pity on him, because you made him and did not make sin in him."
"This experience sufficiently illuminates the truth that free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion."
"I had not the insight to see how the justice, to which good and holy people were obliged to submit, embraces within its principles all that it prescribes for all times in a far more excellent and sublime way, and, although it is in no respect subject to variation, yet it is not given all at once, but at various it prescribed in different contexts what is proper for the circumstances."
"I found myself heavily weighed down by a sense of being tired of living and scared of dying."
"I carried my lacerated and bloody soul when it was unwilling to be carried by me. I found no place where I could put it down. There was no rest in pleasant groves, nor in games or songs, nor in sweet-scented places, nor in exquisite feasts, nor in the pleasures of the bedroom and bed, not finally, in books and poetry. Everything was an object of horror, even light itself; all that was not he made me feel sick and was repulsive - except for groaning and tears. In them alone was there some slight relief."
"I had become to myself a place of unhappiness in which I could not bear to be; but I could not escape from myself."
"The lost life of those who die becomes the death of those still living."
"[Man] had very much to say about the world, but was convicted of ignorance by those who really understand these things, and from this one can clearly know what understanding he had in other matters which are harder to grasp."
"Since it is most true and certain that the incorruptible is superior to the corruptible, as I had already concluded, had it been the case that you are not incorruptible I could in thought have attained something better than my God."
"Then do walls make Christians?"
"The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own."

[Ben Stettin · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a non-believer, a lot of the book felt difficult to read. It was interesting to see logic applied to religious arguments. Many of the "logical" arguments felt ironic because some of the same arguments used to disprove the Manichean way were used in support of Christianity. The last three books are a must read. I could not help but thinking about the structure of the talmud when reading some sections of this book. In thousands of years of human history, Augustine's description of Time and human behavior remain as true today as when he first wrote this book.

[greta long · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think it's a good thing that they didn't develop drugs for anxiety and OCD until recently because I think if Augustine took Xanax we wouldn't have ended up with one of the most important pieces of Christian literature and theology. Bravo!