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Index

Editor’s Preface About This Edition Introduction Suggestions for Further Reading Timeline Map Book One: THE FIRST FIFTEEN YEARS

I–V: Prayer to God and Meditation upon God VI–VII: Augustine’s Infancy VIII: Learning to Speak IX–XIX: Schooldays XX: Reasons for Gratitude to God

Book Two: THE SIXTEENTH YEAR

I–III: Adolescence IV–X: Robbing a Pear-Tree

Book Three: FROM SIXTEEN TO EIGHTEEN

I–III: First Days at Carthage IV–V: Cicero and Scripture VI–X: Joins the Manichees XI–XII: His Mother’s Anxiety

Book Four: FROM EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY-SEVEN

I–III: Searching for Deliverance IV–IX: Loss of a Friend X–XII: The Transience of Created Things XIII–XV: He Writes a Book XVI: Reads Aristotle on the Categories

Book Five: AGED TWENTY-EIGHT

I–II: Prayer III–VII: Faustus Comes to Carthage VIII–XII: Augustine Goes to Rome XIII–XIV: At Milan

Book Six: AGED TWENTY-NINE

I–II: Monica Comes to Milan III–V: His Mind Still Searches VI: Disappointments in Worldly Affairs VII–X: Alypius and Nebridius XI–XVI: The Problem of Continence

Book Seven: AGED THIRTY

I–II: Realisation That God Is Incorruptible III–V: The Problem of the Origin of Evil VI: Finally Rejects Astrology VII–XVII: Beginning of Emancipation from Materialist Thinking XVIII–XXI: The Need for Christ

Book Eight: AGED THIRTY-ONE

I–IV: The Conversion of Victorinus V–XII: Augustine’s Conversion

Book Nine: AGED THIRTY-TWO

I–VII: Reception into the Church VIII–XIII: The Death of Monica

Book Ten: AUGUSTINE’S CONFESSION OF HIS PRESENT

I–V: Why He Makes This Confession VI–VII: What Is God? VIII–XXV: Analysis of Memory XXVI–XXIX: Prayer XXX–XLI: Augustine’s Present State XLII–XLIII: The True Mediator

Book Eleven: IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED (Genesis 1:1)

I: Why He Writes II: His Passionate Desire To Meditate upon God’s Law III–IV: He Would Know the Meaning of Gen. 1:1 V: God Created Heaven and Earth in His Word VI–VII: How Did God Speak His Word? VIII–IX: Meaning of “In the Beginning” (Gen. 1:1) X–XIII: Time and the Universe Began Together XIV–XXX: What Is Time? XXXI: Eternal Knowledge

Book Twelve: HEAVEN AND EARTH (Genesis 1:1–2)

I: Truth Has Given a Promise II-XIII: Interpretation of Heaven and Earth XIV–XX: He Answers Those Who Deny That This Is What Moses Meant by Gen. 1:1 XXI–XXVII: Various Interpretations of Gen.1:2 XXVIII–XXIX: Another Interpretation of “In the Beginning” XXX–XXXII: The Right Attitude of Mind and Heart

Book Thirteen: THE DAYS OF CREATION (Genesis 1:2–31)

I: God Does Not Need Us II: Why God Created III-XI: Literal Interpretation of Gen. 1:2–3 XII-XXXII: Allegorical Interpretation of Gen. 1:1–31 XXXIII–XXXIV: Summary of Exegesis, Literal and Allegorical XXXV–XXXVII: Conclusion:The Seventh Day

Appendix One: Translator’s Note Appendix Two: Foreword to the First Edition Glossary of Select Terms Select Bibliography Index