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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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After hearing the sermons of Ambrose, Augustine began a great internal struggle which led to his conversion in 387. The Confessions describes his conversion, shedding light on the questions that troubled him. 7 cassettes. ... Read more

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The Confessions of St. Augustine
Written in a way making understanding difficult.This could have been translated in a more interesting and reader friendly manner.Very disappointing.

Tai's QuickViews: Three Stars
St. Augustine is obsessed with sin (and Jesus). No wonder as he is the proponent of the concept of original sin. He goes through some lengths not only to prove God's existence, which religious people are constantly prone to do as one who were to have to constantly refute the fact that he is indeed Napoleon Bonapate- Augustine also performs philosophical acrobats to avoid toppling this house of cards called belief. What a feat indeed.
Somehow, God lies outside of everything, even the rules which we know everything.
The "Saint" verbally flogs himself at every turn; even to acts done as a child when he stole fruit for stealing sake or to when he took up with a woman in Milan?
There seems to me a misfiring (as Richard Dawkins calls it) in our brains that needs authority, a craving for a personification of gravity and other laws into one surrogate father.
He talks of God as if he literally KNEW the man, being, spirit, deity, etc. When the only evidence he has of this "knowing" is what was written in a book. If one knew of God based on his own experience, that is if one were to have identical experiences of a god who had NOT read this book and was unable to reap the fodder of scripture to the malleable faults of human imagination, then and only then would I give the 'word" some credence of truth. But this is not the case. Religion is simply a collaboration of sticky, albeit harmful, ideas.

He also expressed his disdain for astrology, ack!

Beautifully Read
I have never read the Confessions of St. Agustine.In fact, I found it very difficult to follow both in English and in Spanish the two times I did actually try to read the book.

Since Agustin can easily be considered one of the greatest thinkers in all of Christianity and foundational for Western civilization, I think it to be important to have some understanding of this man.

This CD version of the book made this man come alive to me.It wasn't just hearing how God dealt with an individualbringing them from darkness tothe light of the Gospel that impressed me, but that did impress me greatly.The details of everyday life from that time period I also found to be fascinating.


So, if you have wanted to read Agustin's spiritual autobiography, but have had trouble understanding it, I highly recommend this audio version.It is beautifully read.

Excellent for Long Commuters!
I enjoyed this unabridge audio book.It's one thing to read the book, its another experience to listen to it!

Great reader
Obviously, the Confessions of St. Augustine themselves need no review. However, potential buyers need to know that the reader for this particular recording is absolutely fantastic. I took the time to listen to other recordings before I decided which to buy, and this one is absolutely the best one. It is a pleasure to listen to! ... Read more

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This most famous of all spiritual books outside of Scripture is applicable to everyone who has experienced the struggle between good and evil in his own soul. It describes the conversion Augustine, shedding light on the questions that troubled him on his way to the Cross. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (18)

Great Book
I love this book. Everyone in some point in life need to Read this great piece of work.Enjoyed every page written very well.

St. Augustine
This book was filled with great knowledge and had a very profound effect on the reader.

Inspiring and Heartwarming
I had read an abridged version of the Confessions but there seemed to be so much missing and in this book I found all the panorama of the whole. A delightful read which tells more about Augustine than any history book ever could. I cried with him when his mother died. He asks God so many of the questions we all ask and his ability to stand apart from himself and critique himself with brutal honesty makes the Confessions the masterpiece that it is.

A low budget publication
When I bought this audiobook I was expecting something more dramatical and poetical than what Bernard Mayes read. I understand they used an old-fashioned English but quite elegant translation, but the problem is Mr. Mayes reading of it. It is really difficult to follow his way. Also the sound system used for the recording is terrible and make the impression of being low budget. This is not my first Blackstone Audiobook and that is what surprise me!!! I always thought of Blackstone Audiobook as a good-standing alternative to Naxos but now I think they need to keep a more strict eye in their production.

horrible
Bernard Mayes mutilates the reading of this wonderful book.He sounds like Gollum from the Lord of the Rings.His reading is just horrible.Some word pronouncements are barely audible, the sounding of the letter s, makes it sound like he has some teeth missing.I am continually having to adjust my sound dial as he is up and down with the sound of his voice. I have no idea why blacstone audio went with this guy. ... Read more

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A translation of De Civitate Dei.Amazon.com Review
Augustine's City of God, a monumental work of religiouslore, philosophy, and history, was written as a kind of literarytombstone for Roman culture. After the sack of Rome, Augustine wrotethis book to anatomize the corruption of Romans' pursuit of earthlypleasures: "grasping for praise, open-handed with their money; honestin the pursuit of wealth, they wanted to hoard glory." Augustinecontrasts his condemnation of Rome with an exaltation of Christianculture. The glory that Rome failed to attain will only be realized bycitizens of the City of God, the Heavenly Jerusalem foreseen inRevelation. Because City of God was written for men ofclassical learning--custodians of the culture Augustine sought tocondemn--it is thick with Ciceronian circumlocutions, and makes manystark contrasts between "Your Virgil" and "Our Scriptures." Even ifAugustine's prose strikes modern ears as a bit bombastic, and if hispolarized Christian/pagan world is more binary than the one we live intoday, his arguments against utopianism and his defense of therichness of Christian culture remain useful and strong. City ofGod is, as its final words proclaim itself to be, "a giant of abook." --Michael Joseph Gross ... Read more

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City of God
Item was not received in condition as explained by seller. Cover was different, condition was worn more than expected, etc

Excellent Condition
Used the book for class but it was really good and I received it from Amazon is excellent condition.

It just flows...
I am not sure who to credit to regarding the eloquent flow of ideas in this book.It is just pleasing to read.Whether it's due to Agustine (I can't read Latin) or to the translator making sure the English reflects the original Latin, this book reflects the breadth of the authors experience and knowledge such that it has universal appeal across the ages.Indeed, the new age garbage that's being touted nowadays as being new and enlightened are the "has beens" in Augustine's age and usually came from the gutter and vulgar culture of his age.

City of God
I received my order on time and in perfect condition. I would definately buy from this seller again.

Not For Beginners
St. Augustine of Hippo is one of the most enlightened men to ever live, but be forewarned: the City of God--while doubtlessly a magnum opus that stands among the giants in the history of philosophy--equals the Bible in length and matches Descartes in density. Unless you are already deeply knowledgeable in Christian theology and Platonist philosophy, I would recommend that you take a college course on Augustine rather than trying to tackle this on your free time.

The entirety of this work, sans footnotes and elaborations, can be found online: [...] ... Read more