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Confessions

St. Augustine (Author)

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Binding: Paperback
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN#: 9780143039518

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Description: Garry Wills's complete translation of Saint Augustine's spiritual masterpiece - available now for the first time.

Garry Wills is an exceptionally gifted translator and one of our best writers on religion today. His bestselling translations of individual chapters of Saint Augustine’s Confessions have received widespread and glowing reviews. Now for the first time, Wills’s translation of the entire work is being published as a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. Removed by time and place but not by spiritual relevance, Augustine’s Confessions continues to influence contemporary religion, language, and thought. Reading with fresh, keen eyes, Wills brings his superb gifts of analysis and insight to this ambitious translation of the entire book.

  • A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with French flaps and luxurious packaging
  • Features a new introduction by the author
  • Only four of the thirteen chapters of Garry Wills's translation of Confessions have appeared previously

 

Monergism Review: Have you ever read the  Confessions? If not you have not read the greatest Christian biography of all time! This is my favorite work. If my library were burning to the ground I would grab the Confessions before every other book. This is an example of just how precious I consider this book to be. And the reason why is because it is so brutally honest and true to life. This is the book that taught me how to be a thinker.
 
When I originally read Augustine’s great work I was backpacking in the North. My life was confined to a small tent with a dim candle. Every night I read this book and it was like Augustine was by my side. The Confessions above all provided me with a sense of comfort, and this is the reason they have survived so long--because Augustine’s struggle is the reader's struggle. He articulates the battle of faith--between belief and doubt, sin and mortification, the power of conversion and the reality of Christ. This book is not just a biography, it is a philosophical and theological work that has no equal.
 
Long before Calvin articulated the opening lines of his Institutes, Augustine penned the Confessions. At the basis of the Reformation stands the gigantic figure of Augustine, and Augustine stands on Christ. “Lord make me great,” he said, “but not yet”. These are the words of a man grappling with the sin of his nature the same way we all must grapple with sin. The Confessions of Augustine comprise one of the greatest books of all time. If you ask me, it is the greatest book of all time from the greatest thinker of all time. There is no book for which I think higher. If I had the money I would buy a copy for every person in the world. -- B. K. Campbell 
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Author: Nadir Mims
I can see myself in Augustine's struggles on every page of his confessions. I was brought to tears when I read the last days of Monica's life. Truly a monumental work by a monumental man of God!

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