The Confessions of Saint Augustine · Confessions of St.Augustine (Image Books) by Augustine, St. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover About the Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Introduction Principal Dates in St. Augustine’s Life BOOK 1. CHILDHOOD

1. God and the Soul 2. God Omnipresent 3. God’s Immensity 4. Divine Attributes 5. Augustine’s Prayer 6. The Infant Augustine 7. The Psychology of Infancy 8. The Growth of Speech 9. Adult Cruelty and Folly 10. The Attraction of Shows 11. Baptism Deferred 12. Good out of Evil 13. Studies in Greek and Latin 14. A Dislike for Greek 15. A Prayer for God’s Help 16. The Influence of Immoral Literature 17. A Twofold Prize 18. Errors of Speech and Acts of Malice 19. A Passion to Shine 20. A Prayer of Thanks

BOOK 2. AUGUSTINE’S SIXTEENTH YEAR

1. The Depths of Vice 2. Love and Lust 3. A Year of Idleness 4. The Stolen Fruit 5. Why Men Sin 6. The Anatomy of Evil 7. Grace That Keeps and Heals 8. Comrades in Crime 9. Evil Communications 10. A Soul in Waste

BOOK 3. LATER YOUTH

1. A Student at Carthage 2. A Lover of Shows 3. The Wreckers 4. Cicero’s Influence 5. Introduction to Sacred Scripture 6. The Manichees 7. Problems and Answers 8. The Natural and the Positive Laws 9. God’s Judgments and Ours 10. The Superstition of the Manichees 11. Monica’s Dream 12. A Bishop’s Prophecy

BOOK 4. AUGUSTINE THE MANICHEAN

1. The Teacher as Seducer 2. A Sacrifice to Devils 3. The Astrologers 4. The Death of a Friend 5. A Sweet Sorrow 6. His Love for the Lost Friend 7. Departure from Thagaste 8. The Healing Powers of Time and Change 9. A Higher Love 10. A Changing Universe 11. Whole and Part 12. Life and Death 13. First Authorship 14. Problems of Reputation 15. Pursuit of Truth 16. False Conceptions of God

BOOK 5. AT ROME AND MILAN

1. A Prayer 2. The Rugged Ways 3. Faustus the Manichean and the Astronomers 4. Knowledge and Happiness 5. The Character and Doctrine of Mani 6. Faustus in Person 7. Faustus as Teacher 8. A Road to Rome 9. Sickness at Rome 10. False Philosophy and False Theology 11. Scriptural Problems 12. Dishonest Students at Rome 13. A New Career at Milan 14. The Influence of St. Ambrose’s Preaching

BOOK 6. YEARS OF STRUGGLE

1. The Widow’s Son 2. Outworn Customs 3. The Example and Words of St. Ambrose 4. Errors Refuted; Truth not yet Found 5. The Authority of the Scriptures 6. False Happiness and Empty Joys 7. Alypius of Thagaste 8. Alypius and the Gladiators 9. Alypius and the Thief 10. Alypius as a Public Official 11. An Examination of Conscience 12. A Discussion on Marriage 13. Arrangements for Marriage 14. Proposals for Community Life 15. The Mother of Adeodatus 16. In the Garden of Epicurus

BOOK 7. PROBLEMS OF THOUGHT AND BELIEF

1. New Knowledge of God’s True Nature 2. A Refutation of the Manichees 3. Free Will and the Problem of Evil 4. God the Absolute Good 5. God’s Omnipotence and the Fact of Evil 6. Astrologists and Horoscopes 7. A Soul Still Tormented 8. God’s Healing Hand 9. Sacred Scripture and Pagan Philosophy 10. The Infinite Light 11. Finite and Infinite 12. Every Being Is Good 13. Universal Good 14. A Return to Idolatry 15. The Temporal and the Eternal 16. The Relative and the Absolute 17. A Momentary Vision 18. The Way of Humility 19. The Divinity of Jesus Christ 20. The Soul’s True Country 21. The Pilgrim Way

BOOK 8. THE GRACE OF FAITH

1. Truth Seen but not Followed 2. The Conversion of Victorinus 3. The Law of Contrasts 4. Mutual Joy 5. The Inner Conflict 6. The Story of Ponticianus 7. The Naked Self 8. In the Garden 9. The Two Wills 10. Man’s Single Nature 11. The Voice of Continence 12. The Voice as of a Child

BOOK 9. THE NEW CATHOLIC

1. A Soul Set Free 2. End of a Worldly Career 3. Conversion and Death of Verecundus and Nebridius 4. At Cassiciacum 5. Resignation of a Professorship 6. Baptism, Easter 387 7. Saints Gervase and Protase 8. Monica’s Youth 9. Monica, Wife of Patricius 10. The Vision at Ostia 11. The Death of St. Monica 12. Monica’s Burial; Augustine’s Grief 13. Remembrance in Prayer

BOOK 10. A PHILOSOPHY OF MEMORY

1. Joy and Hope 2. The Soul Seen Plain 3. The Ears of Men 4. Help Men to Hear Me Aright 5. God’s Knowledge and Man’s Ignorance 6. The Life of Life 7. The Power of Sensation 8. The Fields of Memory 9. A Higher Memory 10. Learning as Remembrance 11. Thought and Memory 12. Mathematics and Memory 13. Memory of Memories 14. Problems of Memory 15. Image and Reality 16. The Problem of Forgetting 17. Beyond Memory 18. Lost Things Found Again 19. The Forgotten Name 20. What All Men Seek 21. The Longed-for Life 22. The Only Happiness 23. Truth and Happiness 24. God, Truth Itself 25. Lord of Mind and Memory 26. The First Petition 27. The Everlasting Love 28. Life Is a Warfare 29. Command What You Will 30. Persistence of Temptation 31. Problems of Food and Drink 32. Inner Doubt and Darkness 33. Music as Means and End 34. Custody of the Eyes 35. Empty Curiosity and Frivolous Interests 36. The Pride of Life 37. Problems of Praise 38. False Humility 39. Presumption and Selfishness 40. Light and Love 41. Truth and the Lie 42. A False Mediator 43. The One Mediator

BOOK 11. TIME AND ETERNITY

1. For Love of Love 2. The Treasures of Scripture 3. The Language of Truth 4. Evidence of Creation 5. Creator of All Things 6. God’s Voice 7. The Word of God 8. Christ Our Teacher 9. Wisdom Itself 10. A Skeptical Objection 11. Past, Present, and Future 12. A Frivolous Answer 13. Before All Time 14. What Is Time? 15. Can Time Be Long or Short? 16. Time and Measurement 17. Prophecy and History 18. Induction and Prediction 19. A Prayer for Light 20. Three Kinds of Time 21. Measures of Time 22. A New Task 23. Bodily Motion as Time 24. Measures of Movement 25. The Deepening Problem 26. The Definition of Time 27. Where Time Is Measured 28. The Mental Synthesis 29. The One and the Many 30. God Alone Is Eternal 31. Unchanging Thought, Unchanging Act

BOOK 12. FORM AND MATTER

1. A Creature of Needs 2. The Two Heavens 3. Matter and Form 4. A Proper Name 5. The Problem of Matter 6. An Appeal to Reason 7. Heights and Depths 8. Darkness over the Deep 9. The Highest Heaven 10. The Fountain of Life 11. The Soul a Pilgrim 12. Things Immune to Time 13. In a Glass, Darkly 14. The Two-edged Sword 15. Answers to Objectors 16. The City of God 17. Other Theories 18. Interpretation of Scripture 19. A Recapitulation 20. Exegesis of Genesis 1:1 21. Interpretations of Genesis 1:2 22. Objections and Answers 23. Meaning and Reality 24. Truths Seen and Stated 25. Reduction to First Principles 26. Had I Been Moses 27. Two Analogies 28. Various Valid Interpretations 29. Four Kinds of Priority 30. A Test of Truth 31. Levels of Truth 32. What God Wants Us to Know

BOOK 13. THE CREATION OF THE WORLD

1. Without You I Am Nothing 2. The Source of Being and Value 3. Let There Be Light 4. Diffusive Good 5. The Trinity 6. The Spirit over the Waters 7. Lift up Your Hearts 8. Fall and Rise 9. The Upward Steps 10. The Happiness of Pure Spirits 11. The Greatest Mystery 12. The Body of Christ 13. Thirst for the Living God 14. Vessels of Honor 15. A Firm Foundation 16. Light and the Enlightened 17. The Embittered and the Compassionate 18. Signs and Times 19. The Rich Young Man 20. What the Sea Brings Forth 21. The Living Soul 22. In His Image 23. Two Kinds of Dominion 24. Increase and Multiply 25. An Obligation Prefigured 26. The Gift and the Fruit 27. True Works of Mercy 28. The Good and the Very Good 29. Time and God’s Vision 30. Manichean Dualism 31. Knowledge of the Good 32. A Summation of Praise 33. Praise and Love 34. The Structure of the Church 35. The Peace of God 36. The Everlasting Sabbath 37. Eternal Act, Eternal Rest 38. The Only Gateway

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