An autobiography supplemented by psychological and theological analyses, written by Saint Augustine , c.400, and giving an account of his early life and spiritual development until shortly after his conversion. For candor and self-appreciation without conceit it is admirable; it contains many sublime passages about the relation of the soul with God. Since 1887 a new edition of SaintAugustine appeared in the “Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesius Latinorum” of the Vienna Academy, the “Confessiones” by P. Knoll (XXXIII). E. B. Pusey’s “Library of the Fathers” (Oxford, 1839-1855) contains a translation of the “Confessions” as does the “Augustinian Library” of Marcus Dods (Edinburgh, 1872-1876). <\/p>\n
Confessions of Saint Augustine An autobiography supplemented by psychological and theological analyses, written by Saint Augustine , c.400, and giving an account of his early life and spiritual development until shortly after his conversion. For candor and self-appreciation without conceit it is admirable; it contains many sublime passages about the relation of the soul with … Continue reading “Confessions of Saint Augustine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}