The confessions of St. Augustine books I-X /
| Uniform Title: | Confessiones. Liber 1-10. English |
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| Main Author: | Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. |
| Other Authors: | Sheed, F. J. 1897-1981, |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Latin |
| Published: |
New York :
Sheed & Ward,
[1942]
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| Physical Description: |
xv, 208 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Book One: The first fifteen years
- I-V. Prayer to God and meditation upon God
- VI-VII. Augustine's infancy
- VIII. Learning to speak
- IX-XIX. Schooldays
- XX. Reasons for gratitude to God
- Book Two: The sixteenth year
- I-III. Adolescence
- IV-X. robbing a pear-tree
- Book Three: From sixteen to eighteen
- I-III. First days at Carthage
- IV-V. Cicero and Scripture
- VI-X. Joins the Manichees
- XI-XII. His mother's anxiety
- Book Four: From eighteen to twenty-seven
- I-III. Searching for deliverance
- IV-IX. Loss of a friend
- X-XII. The transience of created things
- XIII-XV. He writes a book
- XVI. Reads Aristotle on the categories
- Book Five: Aged twenty-eight
- I-II. Prayer
- III-VII. Faustus comes to Carthage
- VIII-XII. Augustine goes to Rome
- XIII.-XIV. At Milan
- Book Six: Aged twenty-nine
- I-II. Monica comes to Milan
- III-V. His mind still searches
- VI. Disappointments in worldly affairs
- VII-X. Alypius and Nebridius
- XI-XVI. The problem of continence
- Book seven: Aged thirty
- I-II. Realization that God is incorruptible
- III-V. The problem of the origin of evil
- VI. Finally rejects astrology
- VII-XVII. Beginning of emancipation from too corporeal thinking
- XVIII-XXI. The need for Christ
- Book Eight: Aged thirty-one
- I-IV. The conversion of victorinus
- V-XII. Augustine's conversion
- Book Nine: Aged Thirty-two
- I-VII. Reception into the church
- VIII-XIII. The death of Monica
- Book Ten: Concludes Augustine's confession
- I-V. Why he makes this confession
- VI-VII. What is God?
- VIII-XXV. Analysis of memory
- XXVI-XXIX. Prayer
- XXX-XLI. Augustine's present state
- XLII-XLIII. The true mediator.