Confessions, Volume II
Books 9-13
The classic account of crisis and conversion.
Aurelius Augustine (AD 354–430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Christian wife, Monnica. While studying to become a rhetorician, he plunged into a turmoil of philosophical and psychological doubts, leading him to Manichaeism. In 383 he moved to Rome and then Milan to teach rhetoric. Despite exploring classical philosophical systems, especially skepticism and Neoplatonism, his studies of Paul’s letters with his friend Alypius, and the preaching of Bishop Ambrose, led in 386 to his momentous conversion from mixed beliefs to Christianity. He soon returned to…
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May 24, 2016Saint Augustine was one of those towering figures who so dominated his age that the age itself bears his name. The Age of Augustine was a time of transition, and Augustine was a genius of such stature that, according to Christopher Dawson, "he was, to a far greater degree than any emperor or general or barbarian warlord, a maker of history and a builder of the bridge which was to lead him from the old world to the new." He was the ablest religious thinker and controversialist at a period when theological controversy reached a level of intellectual refinement never achieved before or since. He was a tireless preacher and he wrote 118 treatises, including the most famous spiritual autobiography…
Teacher. Teaching Christianity
Augustine
Confessions
Augustine and Peter Constantine
Confessions
Augustine
Confessions, Volume II
Augustine
Confessions, Volume I
Augustine
The Confessions
Augustine; Translated by Philip Burton; Introduction by Robin Lane Fox
The Rule of Saint Augustine
Augustine
City of God, Volume VII
Augustine
City of God, Volume III
Augustine
City of God, Volume IV
Augustine
City of God, Volume V
Augustine
City of God, Volume II
Augustine
City of God, Volume VI
Augustine
City of God, Volume I
Augustine
Teacher. Teaching Christianity
Augustine
Euthydemus. Gorgias
Plato
Gallic War
Caesar
Fragmentary Speeches
Cicero
Placita
Aetius
Hippocrates, Volume II
Hippocrates
Philosophical Orations, Volume II
Maximus of Tyre
Philosophical Orations, Volume I
Maximus of Tyre
Testimonia. Origines
Cato
Aetia. Iambi. Lyric Poems
Callimachus