Augustine’s Confessions

AUGUSTINE: CONFESSIONS Newly translated and edited by ALBERT C. OUTLER, Ph.D., D.D. Professor of Theology Perkins School of Theology Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas First published MCMLV Library of Congress…

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conintro Introduction AUGUSTINE: CONFESSIONS by ALBERT C. OUTLER, Ph.D., D.D. Professor of Theology Perkins School of Theology Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas First published MCMLV Library of Congress Catalog Card…

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conbk01 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK ONE CHAPTER I "Great art thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is thy power, and infinite is thy wisdom."6 And man desires to…

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conbk02 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK TWO CHAPTER I I wish now to review in memory my past wickedness and the carnal corruptions of my soul--not because I still love them, but…

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conbk03 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK THREE CHAPTER I I came to Carthage, where a caldron of unholy loves was seething and bubbling all around me. I was not in love as…

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conbk04 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK FOUR CHAPTER I During this period of nine years, from my nineteenth year to my twenty-eighth, I went astray and led others astray. I was deceived…

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conbk05 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK FIVE CHAPTER I Accept this sacrifice of my confessions from the hand of my tongue. Thou didst form it and hast prompted it to praise thy…

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conbk06 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK SIX CHAPTER I O Hope from my youth,1 where wast thou to me and where hadst thou gone away?2 For hadst thou not created me and…

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conbk07 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK SEVEN CHAPTER I Dead now was that evil and shameful youth of mine, and I was passing into full manhood.1 As I increased in years, the…

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