Confessions (Pusey translation)
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117
1876
English
- Book One, Chapters 1-10
- Book One, Chapters 11-18
- Book Two
- Book Three
- Book Four, Chapters 1-10
- Book Four, Chapters 11-18
- Book Five, Chapters 1-8
- Book Five, Chapters 9-12
- Book Six, Chapters 1-8
- Book Six, Chapters 9-16
- Book Seven, Chapters 1-10
- Book Seven, Chapters 11-21
- Book Eight, Chapters 1-6
- Book Eight, Chapters 7-12
- Book Nine, Chapters 1-5
- Book Nine, Chapters 6-10
- Book Nine, Chapters 11-13
- Book Ten, Chapters 1-10
- Book Ten, Chapters 11-20
- Book Ten, Chapters 21-30
- Book Ten, Chapters 31-35
- Book Ten, Chapters 36-43
- Book Eleven, Chapters 1-9
- Book Eleven, Chapters 10-20
- Book Eleven, Chapters 21-31
- Book Twelve, Chapters 1-10
- Book Twelve, Chapters 11-20
- Book Twelve, Chapters 21-32
- Book Thirteen, Chapters 1-10
- Book Thirteen, Chapters 11-20
- Book Thirteen, Chapters 21-26
- Book Thirteen, Chapters 27-38
The Confessions outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written, and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout the following 1,000 years, through the Middle Ages. It is not a complete autobiography, as it was written in his early 40s, and he lived long afterwards, producing another important work (City of God). It does, nonetheless, provide an unbroken record of his development of thought and is the most complete record of any single person from the 4th and 5th centuries. It is a significant theological work, featuring spiritual meditations and insights. It begins:
"GREAT art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality, the witness of his sin, the witness, that ]Thou, O God, resistest the proud: yet would man praise Thee; he, but a particle of Thy creation. Thou awakes us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, unless it repose in Thee.”
(Summary from Wikipedia and Book I, Chapter I.)
"GREAT art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality, the witness of his sin, the witness, that ]Thou, O God, resistest the proud: yet would man praise Thee; he, but a particle of Thy creation. Thou awakes us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, unless it repose in Thee.”
(Summary from Wikipedia and Book I, Chapter I.)
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