Augustine is revered by both Catholics and Protestants. God had gifted Augustine with many gifts: Linguist, Orator, Philosopher. But this book is Augustine's story of how he realized his greatest gift of all: Salvation.
Henry Chadwick has done a fantastic job brining the life of Augustine's Latin into English.Excellent depiction of his philosophical stuggles... This book belongs on everyone's bookshelf regardless of your philosophy. I highly recommend reading (in conjunction with this book) "That Same Flower" by Jostein Gaarder which is most pertinent to "Confessions" and exposes many ironies in Saint Augustine's life.
"Confessions" covers everything from Augustine's struggles with the morality of sexual relations with a women to the concept of what time really is. This book is very engaging to read and I would recommend it to anyone I know (and have)!
This writing, which is a humble autobiography, is the most sublime of that first Millennium, and I think - still the finest Christian autobiography. He is not unctious and he doesn't rant. He makes theology seem so easy and God so near.
Find the answer at the beginning.
Augustine takes us to the limit of human understanding in theology, which becomes humble obedience before the One, who still holds the great mysteries.
