Phil Guides — Understanding the Confessions
Visual First-Read Edition
A study guide to The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine of Hippo
An original illustrated companion. It quotes Augustine of Hippo and is not the complete text of The Confessions of St. Augustine.
Each section works the same way. A figure carries the argument; beneath it the treatise is quoted word for word, with the lines the quotation came from; then a short note explains what to look for. Read the figure first.
The quotations are from E. B. Pusey's translation. They are short by design: this is a guide to the work, not a copy of it. Read it alongside the treatise if you want the complete text.
This edition includes:
- Original study notes for each chapter
- Original diagrams that map arguments, characters, and structure
- Original charts summarizing themes and comparisons
Contents
BOOK I — Being, before he can remember any of it
BOOK II — A theft with nothing to want in it
BOOK III — Carthage, and an appetite looking for an object
BOOK IV — Loving what was always going to be lost
BOOK V — Faustus disappoints, and the ship sails without her
BOOK VI — Milan: what can be believed without being proved
BOOK VII — Evil, and what it turns out to be made of
BOOK VIII — The mind commands itself and is not obeyed
BOOK IX — Baptism, Ostia, and the death of Monica
BOOK X — What do I love, when I love my God?
BOOK XI — What then is time?
BOOK XII — One text, and more than one true reading
BOOK XIII — Creation read again, as a repair