Originally published by Nouvelle Cite, 2003. According to his biographer, Possidius, Augustine spent the last days of his life studying the penitential psalms, which he had posted on the walls of his room, and weeping over his sins. Augustine emphasizes the view that God's creation of the universe did not occur at any point in time, since time only came into being with creation: there was no "before." Augustine and the Pear Tree “Lord, grant me purity, but not yet.” Augustine, Confessions, book VIII, chapter 7 Augustine was no stranger to sin. I strongly recommend that you read this as it makes one aspect of Augustine's influence quite clear. In his Retractions, Augustine states that his reason for writing his Confes sions (composed during the years 397-401) was to move the mind-his own and others'-toward God in love. View Books 4-6.docx from THEOLOGY 231 at Loyola University Chicago.

Augustine Confessions by James J. O'Donnell. "Augustine wrote these words in one of his earliest works, but they retained their force throughout his lifetime. A couple of years back, a remarkable book was published by Ross Douthat. Augustine died on August 28, 430, at the age of 75, so he did not live to see the Vandals overrun Hippo in 431. Start studying Augustine Confessions Book 1-3. It is also clear that he loves to be praised and to earn the approval of the adults around him; this quality in adulthood will become part of the ambition that drives him toward a successful career as a rhetor. Saint Augustine. I recommend it as required reading for anyone who wants to grasp what has happened to faith in the second half of the 20th Century up until now. About the beginning of 391, having found a friend in Hippo to help in the foundation of what he calls a monastery, he sold his inheritance, and was ordained presbyter in response to a general demand, though not without misgivings on his own part. (It is not unlike the temporal stream that Augustine attempts to repair in his gathering-up of his memories, in his attempt to approximate the Eternal Now of God.) Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). From Gregory the Great to the Fathers of Trent, Augustine's theological authority, indisputably the highest, dominates all thinkers and is appealed to alike by the Scholastics Anselm, Peter Lombard, and Thomas Aquinas, and by Bernard, Hugh of St. Victor, and Tauler, exponents of Mysticism, all of whom were nourished upon his writings and penetrated with his spirit. Augustine on Evil by Gregory Koukl A very interesting, accessible, and brief article from a Christian perspective. Noverim te, noverim me: "I would know you [God], I would know myself. Scholars such as Pierre Courcelle have observed an intensification in interest in Augustine’s Confessions in medieval Europe after the 11th century. Augustine’s Confessions I-IX: A Study Guide Michael S. Russo Molloy College Department of Philosophy A ugustine’s Confessions is considered one of the classic works of Western literature and spirituality. His means of doing so is to identify wrong doctrines so that his fellow Christians can keep away from them, and to convince of the truth those who have stumbled into these doctrines. It is Bad Religion – How we became a nation of heretics. Time is the subject of Book XI of the Confessions, in which Augustine explores the relationship between God's timelessness and his creation's experience of time.