Titre : | The Confessions of S. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. A New Translation |
Auteurs : | St Augustin, Auteur |
Type de document : | texte imprimé |
Editeur : | London [GB] : Suttaby and Co, 1884 |
Format : | xv + 372 p. |
Note générale : | Cette édition ne propose pas les livres Xi-XII des Confessions. |
Langues: | Anglais |
Index. décimale : | AF/F (Saint Augustin: oeuvres et études sur l'oeuvre) |
Note de contenu : |
- BOOK I : He confesses the majesty and unsearchableness of God, and desires to praise and invoke Him. Of God's protection during infancy and childhood, when human corruption is plainly manifest. Of his own want of discretion in his studies and abuse of God’s gifts. He ends by praising God for the many endowments and blessings of his youth. - BOOK II : How idleness leads to youthful sins, and that some sins are committed through sheer wantonness. He gives thanks for having been preserved from many offences, and aspires to God the sovereign rest. - BOOK III : His residence at Carthage from his seventeenth to his nineteenth year. His love of plays. Advances in studies, and is inflamed with love of wisdom. Falls into the society of the Manichæans. Refutation of some of their tenets. That the law of God by which crimes against nature is prohibited is eternal. Grief of his mother Monnica at his heresy, and prayers for his conversion. Her vision from God, and answers through a Bishop. - BOOK IV : Augustine’s life from nineteen to eight and twenty ; while himself a Manichæan, he seduces others to the same heresy; partial obedience amidst vanity and sin ; loss of an early friend, who is converted by being baptized when in a swoon ; reflections on grief, on real and unreal friendship, and love of fame; writes on “the fair and fit,” yet cannot rightly, though God had given him great talents, since he erred grossly in religion ; and so even his knowledge was ill applied. - BOOK V : His twenty-ninth year. Faustus, a Manichæan Bishop, made an instrument of deliverance to S. Augustine by showing the ignorance of these heretics on those things, wherein they professed to have divine knowledge. He is now disgusted with Carthage, and goes to Rome and Milan, where he hears S. Ambrose, is alienated from the Manichees, and becomes again a Catechumen in the Catholic Church ». - BOOK VI : Arrival of his mother Monnica at Milan ; her obedience to S. Ambrose, and his value for her ; S. Ambrose’s habits do not allow much private discourse. Augustine finds that he has blamed the Church Catholic wrongly, and desiring absolute certainty, is struck with the contrary analogy of God’s natural Providence. God’s guidance of his friend Alypius. The disputes between them as to marriage and single life. Augustine debates with himself and his friends about their mode of life. His dread of judgment is some restraint on his passions. - BOOK VII : Augustine’s entrance into man's estate ; gradually extricated from his errors, but still with material conceptions of God ; much aided by an argument of Nebridius; sees that the cause of sin lies in free-will, but cannot altogether embrace the doctrine of the Church; sees the absurdity of Astrology, but is much perplexed about the origin of evil ; is led to find in the Platonists the seeds of the doctrine of the Divinity of the Word, but not of His humiliation ; hence he obtains clearer notions of God’s majesty, and of Christ being the only way of salvation; finally all his doubts removed by the study of Holy Scripture, especially S Paul. - BOOK VIII : Augustine’s thirty-second year. He consults Simplicianus ; from him hears the history of the conversion of Victorinus, and longs to devote himself entirely to God, but is mastered by his old habits ; is still further roused by the history of S. Antony, and of the conversion of two courtiers; during a severe struggle, hears a voice from heaven, opens Scripture, and is converted, with his friend Alypius. His mother’s visions fulfilled. - BOOK IX : Augustine determines to devote his life to God, and gradually to abandon his profession of Rhetoric. Correspondence with S. Ambrose as to his change of life. Retires to the country to prepare himself to receive the grace of Baptism, and is baptized with Alypius, and his son Adeodatus. At Ostia, in his way to Africa, his mother Monnica dies, in her fifty-sixth year, the thirty-third of Augustine. A description of her pious life and character. - BOOK X : Having in the former books spoken of himself before his receiving the grace of Baptism, in this Augustine confesses his remaining infirmities. An enquiry into the faculty by which we can know God at all ; he dilates on the mysterious character of the memory which we have to pass beyond to discover God. Then he examines his own trials under the triple division of temptation, ‘'lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride; ” what Christian continency prescribes as to each. On Christ the Only Mediator, through whom he confidently hopes to be cured of all his maladies. |
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