Javier Centellas’s Reviews > Confessions > Status Update

Read Book VI: Secular Ambitions & Desires. A bit different, slower, contemplative part. Where his conversion really comes into play. Yay.

Re-read Book V: Carthage, Rome & Milan. Another one of my favorite sections. Wished there were more footnotes about the Manichees. Still have a lot of reading to do for class tomorrow though.

Re-read Book 4: Manichee & Astrologer. One of my favorite sections, shame it took me 3 days to get through it.

Re-read book 3. Forgot about the cultural relativism part.

Re-read Book 2, Adolescence. Famous story of the theft of the pears. I almost guarantee the quiz tomorrow will be exclusively on that.

Re-read Book 1, Early Years. Reading this book for honours class. The syllabus says only to read through book 9 but im trying to finish the whole book on my own. Good to re-read cause it is very dense. I have low expectations for discussion tomorrow though.

Read Book VIII. I have a bad habit of getting halfway through a book/chapter then not finishing it and coming back days later. Given how this was supposed to be read aloud in one sitting it kinda fucks up the message of the book. Took me a week to finish this chapter. But basically in this section St. Augustine finally converts fully to the Catholic Church.

Read Book VII. What the helliante.

Finished Book VI. A lot more talk of sexual matters. Strange reading this now.

Read Book III. Interesting discussion of how the theatre is to be avoided, talk of immoral catharsis. Lot of Platonic themes. Discussion of how Augustine became more religious and is led astray by the Manichaens. I like all the footnotes but I wish they went more in depth about Manichaeism. Some discussion on sexual matters. Discussion on basic morality & the nature of divine law. I've been warned about book 4