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Paraclete Essentials: The Confessions of St. Augustine (Paperback)
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from endersreads
This book is very dear to me. I read "Confessions" in a very difficult personal time and quickly became overwhelmed by Augustines sincerity, intellect, and love for The Immutable Light. Augustine presents us with a very interesting time period in as where Christianity and Roman Paganism lie in ju...
from miquixote
Augustine's 'efficacious grace' inspired Reformation theologians such as Martin Luther and John Calvin. Augustine taught that Adam's guilt, as transmitted to his descendants, severely weakens, though does not destroy, the freedom of their will. Luther and Calvin took it one step further and said ...
from StephenBarkley
The peril with reading classics is my insufficiency to write a proper review. As with The Imitation and Revelations of Divine Love, you'll have to be content with my amateurish reflections instead. When I first sat down to begin Book One of The Confessions, I was prepared for a war. I figured if ...
from nicholasjjordan
I've read the Maria Boulding translation 2 or 4 times, but I grabbed this with Garry Wills after reading Wills' biography of Augustine. Really glad I read it, some great and memorable phrasing, but I'll return to Boulding again next time.
from nicholasjjordan
From my perspective Augustine's Confessions is obviously a 5-star book, so this is mainly a review of this particular translation. I've read Maria Boulding's translation 3-4 times, and it is indeed amazing, one of those translations that makes clear that works in translation can be works of art a...
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