The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas...
In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates...
This translation of Augustine's most popular work was done by Maria Boulding and is considered "of a different level of excellence from practically anything else on the market" (Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury). The Confessions of Saint Augustine is considered...
Augustine of Hippo's Confessions is a masterpiece of Christian spirituality, a love story between God and the man who would become one of history's most famous saints. In a testimony both intensely emotional and profoundly theological, Augustine recounts how his restless...
San Agust?n era del norte de ?frica, hijo de padre pagano y madre cristiana, estudiante y luego se dedic? a dar clases de Ret?rica, durante su adolescencia entra en conflicto con la moral cristiana. Pero la lectura del "Hortensio", di?logo hoy perdido en el que Cicer?n exhorta...
The Confessions of Saint Augustine is considered one of the greatest Christian classics of all time. It is an extended poetic, passionate, intimate prayer that Augustine wrote as an autobiography sometime after his conversion, to confess his sins and proclaim...
Esta es una compilaci?n de trece libros escritos entre los a?os 397 y 398 por San Agustin, Obispo de Hipona, Padre y Doctor de la Iglesia, que se publican como un voumen. Es un libro autobiogr?fico escrito por San Agust?n de sus primeros 40 a?os de vida pues vivi? hasta los 76...
In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates...
The Confessions of Saint Augustine is considered the all time number one Christian classic. Augustine undertook his greatest piece of writing with the conviction that God wanted him to make this confession. The Confessions are, in fact, an extended poetic, passionate, intimate...
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"For you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you." --Saint Augustine of Hippo Of all the autobiographies ever written by mere mortals, Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo is the greatest. In this masterpiece, you will...
Las Confesiones nos presentan dos vidas de Agust n, dos corazones con sendos amores, que acaban fundi ndose en uno, dos caminos divergentes en el punto de partida y maravillosamente convergentes en el de llegada. No creo que sea aventurado afirmar que, Agust n, ha hecho y escrito...
No modern, well-versed literature lover can call her education complete without having read Augustine's Confessions. One of the most original works of world literature, it is the first autobiography ever written, influencing writers from Montaigne to Rousseau, Virginia Woolf...