Confessions

Name: Confessions
Brand: Catholic University of America Press
SKU: 3215617
Price: 53.44 USD
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Author: St. Augustine
ISBN: 9780813215617

Translated By: Vernon J. Bourke

By: St. Augustine

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Catholic University of America Press / 1953 / Paperback

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Title: Confessions
By: St. Augustine
Translated By: Vernon J. Bourke
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 516
Vendor: Catholic University of America Press
Publication Date: 1953

Dimensions: 8.50 X 5.50 X 1.15 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 7 ounces
ISBN: 0813215617
ISBN-13: 9780813215617
Series: Fathers of the Church Patristic
Stock No: WW3215617

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Augustine wrote his famous Confessiones during the early years of his episcopate, specifically, between 397 and 400. This work, ground-breaking in its time, is a piece of introspection and personal reminiscence aimed at glorifying God in gratitude for Augustine's conversion to Christianity. Augustine lays bare his personal journey, which took him from youthful carousal through phases of Manichaean dualism, Stoic speculation, skepticism, and Neo-Platonism, to the discovery of salvation in Jesus Christ. The final three "books" of this work offer Augustine's exegesis of the creation narratives in the Book of Genesis.