Confessions (Deluxe Leatherette)

By St. Augustine. Translated by Anthony Esolen

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“For you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” —Saint Augustine of Hippo

Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo is one of the finest autobiographies ever written by a mere mortal. In this masterwork, you will discover a Church doctor searching for Christ, the genuine Doctor of the Soul.

Confessions is a genuine voyage to the brink of the new Jerusalem, taking us from Augustine's beginnings in Africa to his interactions with his spiritual father Saint Ambrose in Milan, from his fight against his concupiscence to his legendary conversion. Indeed, its conclusion is a remarkable meditation on time and memory, the human soul and the material universe, and God's creative and redeeming power.

Dr. Anthony Esolen's revised translation tries to keep and disclose the metaphorical by adhering as closely to the literal as possible, both in the importance of individual words and in the author's emotion. Confessions is a work of literary art, "one of the most stupendous ever wrought," he adds, incredibly rich in insights and convoluted in its return, again and again, to the problems of a soul seeking truth and solutions waiting to be discovered, if we would just seek, ask, and knock. Confessions is unlike any book you've ever read.

"The Confessions is one continuous and coherent prayer, a profound profession of faith, and a plea for more, ever more wisdom, ever more love," says Dr. Esolen.

It is artistic in its whole, from its pieces and their arrangement down to the smallest line. It is more reminiscent of the Gothic structures that will adorn Europe eight hundred years later than anything you or I could write about ourselves and our lives." The reader encounters Augustine, the child, the hopeful youngster, the sinner, the teacher, the intellectual traveller, the reluctant catechumen, and the Christian man set free at last.

The reader joins his or her own spiritual journey via this book, as we cry out to the living God in the depths of our souls, "Let me know you, O Lord, who knows me; let me know you even as I am known."

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