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The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

This translation of Augustine's most popular work was done by Maria Boulding and is considered "of a different level of excellence from practically anything else on the market" (Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury).

The Confessions of Saint Augustine is considered... Read Full Overview

The Confessions of Saint Augustine is considered one of the greatest Christian classics of all time. It is an extended poetic, passionate, intimate prayer that Augustine wrote as an autobiography sometime after his conversion, to confess his sins and proclaim... Read Full Overview

Augustine of Hippo's Confessions is a masterpiece of Christian spirituality, a love story between God and the man who would become one of history's most famous saints. In a testimony both intensely emotional and profoundly theological, Augustine recounts how his restless... Read Full Overview

San Agust?n era del norte de ?frica, hijo de padre pagano y madre cristiana, estudiante y luego se dedic? a dar clases de Ret?rica, durante su adolescencia entra en conflicto con la moral cristiana. Pero la lectura del "Hortensio", di?logo hoy perdido en el que Cicer?n exhorta... Read Full Overview

Esta es una compilaci?n de trece libros escritos entre los a?os 397 y 398 por San Agustin, Obispo de Hipona, Padre y Doctor de la Iglesia, que se publican como un voumen. Es un libro autobiogr?fico escrito por San Agust?n de sus primeros 40 a?os de vida pues vivi? hasta los 76... Read Full Overview

And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught... Read Full Overview

The Confessions of Saint Augustine is considered the all time number one Christian classic. Augustine undertook his greatest piece of writing with the conviction that God wanted him to make this confession. The Confessions are, in fact, an extended poetic, passionate, intimate... Read Full Overview

"For you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you."

Las Confesiones nos presentan dos vidas de Agust n, dos corazones con sendos amores, que acaban fundi ndose en uno, dos caminos divergentes en el punto de partida y maravillosamente convergentes en el de llegada. No creo que sea aventurado afirmar que, Agust n, ha hecho y escrito... Read Full Overview