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Augustine confessions augustines confessions excerpts. His confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle, to become instead a staunch advocate of christianity and one of its most influential thinkers. Jun 01, 2002 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Confessions by saint augustine of hippo full audio book.
Written in the authors early forties in the last years of the fourth century a. He was a latin philosopher and theologian from the africa province of the roman empire and is generally considered as one of the greatest christian thinkers of all times. The confessions of saint augustine by augustine of hippo. Aurelius augustinus hipponensis, in english augustine of hippo, also known as st. Volume 1 ebook written by saint augustine bishop of hippo. Jan 26, 20 confessions full audio book by saint augustine of hippo 354430 translated by albert c. Rowan williams, archbishop of canterbury, calls bouldings translation a different level of excellence from practically anything else on the market. The confessions is an all time number one christian classic an extended poetic, passionate, intimate prayer written by st. Modern english translations of it are sometimes published under the title the confessions of st.
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