The Eastern Cross/Library/The Confessions
Augustine tells God the story of his life: a restless youth, years of searching through philosophy and heresy, the prayers of his mother St. Monica, and the day in a garden in Milan when he heard a child singing “take up and read.”
The Orthodox Church honours him as Blessed Augustine. Some of his later teaching, on grace and on the Holy Spirit, the Church does not follow, but the Confessions is loved everywhere as a book of prayer and repentance.
Contents
- 1Book I35 min read
- 2Book II20 min read
- 3Book III25 min read
- 4Book IV35 min read
- 5Book V30 min read
- 6Book VI40 min read
- 7Book VII40 min read
- 8Book VIII40 min read
- 9Book IX40 min read
- 10Book X (1 of 3)25 min read
- 11Book X (2 of 3)25 min read
- 12Book X (3 of 3)25 min read
- 13Book XI (1 of 2)25 min read
- 14Book XI (2 of 2)20 min read
- 15Book XII (1 of 2)25 min read
- 16Book XII (2 of 2)20 min read
- 17Book XIII (1 of 2)25 min read
- 18Book XIII (2 of 2)35 min read
About this edition
Translated by J. G. Pilkington, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, first series, vol. 1 (1886), edited by Philip Schaff.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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