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Augustine's Confessions


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Journey with Augustine in his Confessions: A raw, introspective quest for God. Explore his struggles with sin, intellectual wanderings, and profound conversion. A foundational work on faith, memory, and the restless human heart.

Works Cited

  • Augustine, Saint. Confessions. Translated by Henry Chadwick, Oxford University Press, 1998. Oxford World's Classics.

  • ---. Confessions. Translated by R. S. Pine-Coffin, Penguin Classics, 1961.

  • ---. Expositions on the Book of Psalms. Translated by Philip Schaff, The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 1894.

  • ---. The Confessions. Translated by Maria Boulding, O.S.B., edited by John E. Rotelle, O.S.A., vol. 1, New City Press, 1997. The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century.

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  • [Unattributed]. "AUGUSTINE, SCRIPTURE, AND CITY OF GOD." Open Journal Systems, n.d. This excerpt does not provide sufficient information (author, article title, volume/issue, specific date) for a complete citation.

  • [Unattributed]. "Chapter 2. Dialogue and Debate in Late Antiquity." The Center for Hellenic Studies, n.d. This chapter excerpt lacks specific author, full book title, and publication date.

  • [Unattributed]. "Saint Augustine's Confessions: The Odyssey of Soul (review)." Journal of the History of Philosophy, p. 203, 2008. Project MUSE, launched 1 Jan. 2008. The author of this review is not specified in the provided excerpt.

  • [Unattributed]. "St Augustine's Use of the Psalms." The Way, n.d. This excerpt does not provide sufficient information (author, article title, volume/issue, specific date) for a complete citation.

  • [Unattributed]. "The Transforming Message of Romans." Modern Reformation, n.d. This excerpt does not provide sufficient information (author, article title, volume/issue, specific date) for a complete citation.

  • Brown, Peter. Augustine of Hippo. 1967. This work is inferred from a bibliographic reference within the provided sources.

  • Canty, Aaron. "Saint Paul in Augustine." A Companion to St. Paul in the Middle Ages, edited by Aaron Canty, vol. 39, Brill, 2013, pp. 115–142. Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004236721_006.

  • Eastman, Regina. "Shameless Shame: St. Augustine's Confessions." Anthós Journal (1990-1996), vol. 1, no. 2, 1991, Article 5. PDXScholar, https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/anthos_archives/vol1/iss2/5.

  • Farrell, James M. "The Rhetoric(s) of St. Augustine's Confessions." Augustinian Studies, vol. 39, no. 2, 2008, pp. 265–291. THE AUGUSTINIAN INSTITUTE at Villanova University, doi:0.5840/augstudies200839224.

  • Fitzgerald, Allan D., editor. Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia. Eerdmans, 1999.

  • Harmless, William, editor. Augustine in His Own Words. The Catholic University of America Press, 2010.

  • Kraley, Shon H. "Neoplatonic Influences in Augustine's Confessions." Anthós Journal (1990-1996), vol. 1, no. 1, 1990, Article 6. PDXScholar, https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/anthos_archives/vol1/iss1/6.

  • Krause, Paul. "The Fall of Soul from Plotinus to Augustine." VoegelinView, n.d. The article's specific publication date is not provided in the excerpt.

  • Letteney, Mark. The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations. Cambridge University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009363341.

  • Mears, Preston Kennard, Jr. "St. Augustine and Romans 7:7-25: An Analysis of Use and Influences." 1966. Bachelor of Divinity thesis, The Episcopal Theological School. Internet Archive.

  • Mellone, Sydney Herbert. Leaders of Early Christian Thought. The Lindsey Press, 1954.

  • Wickham Lionel, R., and Caroline P. Bammel. "Augustine's Paradoxes." Christian Faith and Greek Philosophy in Late Antiquity, Brill, pp. 52–69. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004312852_005.


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