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  title info:
    title: Confessions
  title info:
    title: Confessiones. English
  name:
    name part: Augustine
    name part: of Hippo, Saint
    name part: 354-430
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Pilkington, J. G. (Joseph Green)
  name:
    name part: Shuster, George N. (George Nauman)
    name part: 1894-1977
  name:
    name part: Legrand, Edy
    name part: 1892-1970
    role:
      role term: illustrator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Heritage Press
    date issued: [1963]
    date issued: 1963
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: lat
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxx, 296 pages 20 color plates 27 cm
  abstract: More than 1500 years have passed since this book was written by a Roman, but it has lost none of its freshness and appeal. Here a Christian saint who has influenced the thought and feeling of the West as perhaps no other man has, tells the story of his life with the utmost candor and pertinence of phrase. He considers himself a brand saved from the burning through the goodness of God, to whom he pays tribute. The book is, indeed, above all an act of thanksgiving. But no doubt it was also written because Augustine hoped he could outline a goal for many young men and women of his time who were going nowhere in particular. This is likewise a book about a student and professor of the fourth century, a book which in spite of its historical coloring seems to be describing the life of an intellectual in our own time. - Introduction.
  table of contents: Commencing with the invocation of God, Augustine relates in detail the beginning of his life, his infancy and boyhood up to his fifteenth year; at which age he acknowledges that he was more inclined to all youthful pleasures and vices than to the study of letters -- He advances to puberty, and indeed to the early part of the sixteenth year of his age, in which, having abandoned his studies, he indulged in lustful pleasures, and, with his companions, committed theft -- Of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth years of his age, passed at Carthage, when, having completged his course of studies, he is caught in the snares of a licentious passion, and falls into the snare of the Manichaeans -- Then follows a period of nine years from the nineteenth year of his age, during which, having lost a friend, he followed the Manichaeans -- and wrote books 'on the fair and fit, ' and published a work on the liberal arts, and the categories of Aristotle -- He describes the twenty-ninth year of his age, in which, having discovered the fallacies of the Manichaeans, he professed rhetoric at Rome and Milan. Having heard Amrbose, he begins to come to himself -- Attaining his thirtieth year, he, under the admonition of the discourses of Ambrose, discovered more and more the truth of the Catholic doctrine, and deliberates as to the better regulation of his life -- He recalls the beginning of his youth, i.e. the thirty-first year of his age, in which veery grave errors as to the nature of God, and the origin of evil, being distinguished, and the sacred books more accurately known, he at length arrives at a clear knowledge of God, not yet rightly apprehending Jesus Christ -- He finally describes the thirty-second year of his age, the most memorable of his whole life, in whic, being instructed by Simplicianus concerning the conversion of others, and the manner of acting, he is, after a severe struggle, renewed inhis whole mind, and is converted unto God -- He speaks of his design of fo…
  note: In the translation of J.G. Pilkington. With an introd. by George N. Shuster and illustrated with paintings by Edy Legrand.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-ae---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: of Hippo, Saint
      name part: Augustine
      name part: 354-430
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Catholic Church
    geographic: Algeria
    geographic: Hippo (Extinct city)
    topic: Bishops
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Christian saints
    geographic: Algeria
    geographic: Hippo (Extinct city)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Conversion
    topic: Christianity
  subject:
    topic: Sins
  subject:
    topic: Grace (Aesthetics)
  subject:
    geographic: Hippo (Extinct city)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Église catholique
    topic: Évêques
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Conversion
    topic: Christianisme
  subject:
    topic: Péchés
  subject:
    topic: Grâce (Esthétique)
  subject:
    geographic: Hippone (Ville ancienne)
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    name:
      name part: of Hippo, Saint
      name part: Augustine
      name part: 354-430
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Catholic Church.
  subject:
    topic: Bishops
  subject:
    topic: Christian saints
  subject:
    topic: Conversion
    topic: Christianity
  subject:
    topic: Grace (Aesthetics)
  subject:
    topic: Sins
  subject:
    geographic: Algeria
    geographic: Hippo (Extinct city)
  classification: BR65.A6 E5 1963a
  classification: 242
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Confessions of St. Augustine
    name:
      name part: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, Heritage Press [1963]
    identifier: (OCoLC)610593114
  identifier: 64000028
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 770802
    record change date: 20240625162449.0
    record identifier: in00000292734
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng