Wills attempts to decouple sex from sin in our reading of the "Confessions," calling a "vulgar misconception" the idea that Augustine blamed original sin on sex. He proposes both that Augustine's ...

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Augustine's Confessions is meant for the general reader. Though Wills is carrying on a kind of military manoeuvre against certain readings of Augustine's work, the language is clear and Wills's ...

Written in about A.D. 400, ‘Confessions’ details how God worked in the saint’s life and reads not just as a story but as a ...

Considering the enormous gamut of world literature, the Confessions of St Augustine are considered among the most read works worldwide – indeed a bestseller. Readers’ motivations in perusing ...

Moreover, creation, for Augustine, is dynamically ordered toward the Church, toward the deified destiny which the Body of Christ both is and brings about. Thus, the Confessions itself can be ...

Augustine’s Confessions has become a modern classic because it feels so immediate and familiar to our current desire for self-understanding.

St Augustine by Sandro Botticelli In his Confessions, the bishop of Hippo invokes the God he loves, calling him unceasingly in the vocative: Tu Thou or You. Augustine searches his heart, his ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Augustine's account of his conversion to Christianity.

Reza Alizadeh is the translator of the book, which was originally published in 2005. Augustine’s “Confessions”, written at the close of the fourth century CE, is a highly significant text in the ...