Confessions

Translated by Edward B. Pusey

Augustine of Hippo · 354–430

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Augustine of Hippo (354–430) was born in Roman North Africa to a pagan father and a praying Christian mother, Monica, whose tears followed him through years of ambition, pleasure, and the Manichaean religion. In a Milan garden in 386 he heard a child chanting "take up and read," opened Paul's letters, and was undone. Baptised by Ambrose, he returned to Africa and served some thirty-five years as bishop of Hippo, writing the Confessions and The City of God and contending for grace against the Donatists and Pelagians. He died in 430 as the Vandals besieged his city.

Contents

1. 1 Book I 35 min
2. 2 Book II 19 min
3. 3 Book III 27 min
4. 4 Book IV 35 min
5. 5 Book V 34 min
6. 6 Book VI 39 min
7. 7 Book VII 43 min
8. 8 Book VIII 41 min
9. 9 Book IX 44 min
10. 10 Book X 82 min
11. 11 Book XI 48 min
12. 12 Book XII 51 min
13. 13 Book XIII 63 min