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William R. Cook and Ronald B. Herzman · 2004
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What this book knows
Augustine's Confessions enacts the restless soul's conversion: desire, guilt, and grace fold into a single sustained prayer to God.
faith-and-doubt
Augustine describes the restlessness of the human spirit if it does not recognize and praise God.
GCCO-RC-018The entire work is a prayer addressed to God; the audience overhears it rather than listens to it directly.
GCCO-RC-015Augustine wonders where evil originates and whether God has a body — big questions he will struggle with for many years.
GCCO-RC-028self-and-identity
He considers babies one day old to be sinners, showing a radical selfishness, not regarding anything except their immediate desire.
GCCO-RC-019Augustine discusses his pre-Christian life in a way radically different from how he regarded those events as he lived them.
GCCO-RC-016shame
Augustine asks why there was so much apparent pleasure in doing what was forbidden, realizing his rebellion is still another manifestation of selfishness.
GCCO-RC-0266 published passages · documentary · research analysis
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