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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robin Lane Fox's magisterial work Augustine Conversions and Confessions deals only with the first 43 years of his life and is focused on the Confessions and the series of "conversions" around ...

The purpose of this article is to offer a close reading of a passage from Book Nine of the Confessions (9.4.8-11) which is an example of a spiritual exercise in written form. In the passage at issue, ...