The Confessions of Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine

okt 2007 · Masterpiece Boek 28 · LA CASE Books · Via AI voorgelezen door Mike (van Google)

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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 his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the domination of his sexual nature, his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage, and the recovery of the faith his mother Monica had taught him during his childhood.

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Saint Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430), was a theologian and philosopher, bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.

His writings influenced the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity, and he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church in the Patristic Period. His many important works include The City of God, On Christian Doctrine, and Confessions.