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Confessions

by: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Sheed, F. J.; Brown, Peter Robert Lamont

Confessions

by: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Sheed, F. J.; Brown, Peter Robert Lamont

ISBN 13:
9780872201866
ISBN 10:
0872201864
Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 10/01/1993
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Summary

The second Hackett edition of the Sheed translation, a classic in its own right, offers a wealth of notes on philosophical, theological, historical, and liturgical issues raised by the Confessions, as well as paragraph numbers of the Latin critical edition, and a thorough index.

Introduction

(16)

Suggestions for Further Reading

xxv

(2)

Foreword

xxvii

(4)

Translator's Note

xxxi

Book One: THE FIRST FIFTEEN YEARS

(20)

I-V Prayer to God and Meditation upon God

(2)

VI-VII Augustine's Infancy

(4)

VIII Learning to Speak

(1)

IX-XIX Schooldays

(9)

XX Reasons for Gratitude to God

(4)

Book Two: THE SIXTEENTH YEAR

(12)

I-III Adolescence

(3)

IV-X Robbing a Pear-tree

(9)

Book Three: FROM SIXTEEN TO EIGHTEEN

(16)

I-III First Days at Carthage

(3)

IV-V Cicero and Scripture

(1)

VI-X Joins the Manichees

(6)

XI-XII His Mother's Anxiety

(6)

Book Four: FROM EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY-SEVEN

(18)

I-III Searching for Deliverance

(3)

IV-IX Loss of a Friend

(4)

X-XII The Transcience of Created Things

(3)

XIII-XV He Writes a Book

(3)

XVI Reads Aristotle on the Categories

(5)

Book Five: AGED TWENTY-EIGHT

(18)

I-II Prayer

(1)

III-VII Faustus Comes to Carthage

(6)

VIII-XII Augustine Goes to Rome

(5)

XIII-XIV At Milan

(6)

Book Six: AGED TWENTY-NINE

(20)

I-II Monica Comes to Milan

(2)

III-V His Mind Still Searches

(3)

VI Disappointments in Worldly Affairs

(2)

VII-X Alypius and Nebridius

(5)

XI-XVI The Problem of Continence

(8)

Book Seven: AGED THIRTY

107

(22)

I-II Realisation That God Is Incorruptible

107

(2)

III-V The Problem of the Origin of Evil

109

(3)

VI Finally Rejects Astrology

112

(2)

VII-XVII Beginning of Emancipation from Too Corporeal Thinking

114

(8)

XVIII-XXI The Need for Christ

122

(7)

Book Eight: AGED THIRTY-ONE

129

(22)

I-IV The Conversion of Victorinus

129

(5)

V-XII Augustine's Conversion

134

(17)

Book Nine: AGED THIRTY-TWO

151

(22)

I-VII Reception into the Church

151

(9)

VIII-XIII The Death of Monica

160

(13)

Book Ten: CONCLUDES AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSION

173

(38)

I-V Why He Makes This Confession

173

(3)

VI-VII What Is God?

176

(2)

VIII-XXV Analysis of Memory

178

(14)

XXVI-XXIX Prayer

192

(1)

XXX-XLI Augustine's Present State

193

(14)

XLII-XLIII The True Mediator

207

(4)

Book Eleven: IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED...(Genesis I, i)

211

(24)

I Why He Writes

211

(1)

II His Passionate Desire to Meditate upon God's Law

211

(2)

III-IV He Would Know the Meaning of Gen. I, 1

213

(1)

V God Created Heaven and Earth in His Word

214

(1)

VI-VII How Did God Speak His Word?

214

(1)

VIII-IX Meaning of "In the Beginning"

215

(2)

X-XIII Time and the Universe Began Together

217

(2)

XIV-XXX What Is Time?

219

(12)

XXXI Eternal Knowledge

231

(4)

Book Twelve: ...HEAVEN AND EARTH (Genesis I, 1-2)

235

(26)

I Truth Has Given a Promise

235

(1)

II Heaven Does Not Mean the Sky but the Heaven of Heaven

235

(1)

III-IV Earth Means Sheer Formlessness

235

(2)

VII Summarizes All We Have Learnt Thus Far of Creation

237

(1)

VIII The Creation of the Material Heaven and Earth

238

(1)

IX-XIII Why the Creation of Heaven and Earth (of Gen. I, 1) Is Not in the Enumeration of Days

239

(3)

XIV-XX He Answers Those Who Deny That This Is What Moses Meant by Gen. I, 1

242

(1)

XIV-XVI Whether Moses Meant This or Not, It Is True

242

(3)

XVII Their Various Statements of What Moses Meant

245

(1)

XVIII-XX It Does Not Greatly Matter, Provided All Are True in Themselves

246

(2)

XXI Various Interpretations of Gen. I,2

248

(1)

XXII Discussion of Two of These Interpretations

248

(1)

XXIII-XXV Fruitlessness of Wrangling

249

(3)

XXVI Had He Been Moses

252

(1)

XXVII How the Uninstructed Conceive Creation

252

(1)

XXVIII-XXIX Another Interpretation of In the Beginning

253

(3)

XXX-XXXII The Right Attitude of Mind and Heart

256

(5)

Book Thirteen: THE DAYS OF CREATION (Genesis I, 2-31)

261

(28)

I God Does Not Need Us

261

(1)

II Why God Created

261

(1)

III Be Light Made (Verse 3)

262

(1)

IV Moved Over the Waters (Verse 2)

263

(1)

V The Blessed Trinity in the Account of Creation

263

(1)

VI-VII Why It Is Written That the Spirit Moved Over the Waters

264

(1)

VIII Be Light Made

265

(1)

IX Why It Is Not Written That Father and Son Moved over the Waters

265

(1)

X Be Light Made

266

(1)

XI The Blessed Trinity

266

(1)

XII-XIV He Divided the Light from the Darkness (Verse 4)

267

(2)

XV Let There Be a Firmament Made...and Let It Divide the Waters from the Waters (Verse 6)

269

(1)

XVI An Earth without Water

270

(1)

XVII Let the Waters Be Gathered Together...Let the Earth Bring Forth Fruit (Verse 9)

271

(1)

XVIII-XIX Let There Be Light Made in the Firmament of Heaven (Verse 14)

271

(2)

XX Let the Waters Bring Forth...(Verse 20)

273

(1)

XXI Let the Earth Bring Forth the Living Creature (Verse 24)

274

(2)

XXII Let Us Make Man to Our Image and Likeness (Verse 26)

276

(1)

XXIII Let Him Have Dominion (Verse 28)

277

(1)

XXIV Increase and Multiply (Verse 28)

278

(2)

XXV-XXVII ...That They May Have to Feed upon (Verse 30)

280

(3)

XXVIII-XXXIII God Saw All the Things That He Had Made (Verse 31)

283

(3)

XXXIV Figurative Signification of the Order of Creation

286

(1)

XXXV-XXXVII The Seventh Day

287

(2)

Biblical Citations

289

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