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Sheed's classic translation of Augustine's Confessions. True to the original, and in a subtle and dignified English translation, let this be a cornerstone of your library. 'Here is a classic which can never grow musty and a story which is new today. Mr Sheed's excellent translation puts the book in reach of everyone.' - Catholic Herald 'Mr Sheed's translation must be pronounced a great success. It brings out the full meaning of the original, and in an author so full of subtle nuances and glittering phrases that a defy a rendering that is an achievement.' - Church Times

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Author:   Frank J. Sheed ,  F.J. Sheed
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Sheed & Ward Ltd
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.268kg
ISBN:  

9780722026236

ISBN 10:   0722026234
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 January 1944
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

BOOK ONE: THE FIRST FIFTEEN YEARS I-V Prayer to God and Meditation upon God VI-VII Augustine's Infancy VIII Learning to Speak IX-XIX Schooldays XX Reasons for Gratitude to God BOOK TWO: THE SIXTEENTH YEAR I-III Adolescence IV-X Robbing a Pear-tree BOOK THREE: FROM SIXTEEN TO EIGHTEEN I-III First Days at Carthage IV-V Cicero and Scripture VI-X Joins the Manichees XI-XII His Mother's Anxiety BOOK FOUR: FROM EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY-SEVEN I-III Searching for Deliverance IV-IX Loss of a Friend X-XII The Transience of Created Things XIII-XV He writes a Book XVI Reads Aristotle on the Categories BOOK FIVE: AGED TWENTY-EIGHT I-II Prayer III-VII Faustus Comes to Carthage VIII-XII Augustine Goes to Rome XIII-XIV At Milan BOOK SIX: AGED TWENTY-NINE I-II Monica Comes to Milan III-V His Mind Still Searches VI Disappointments in Worldly Affairs VII-X Alypius and Nebridius XI-XVI The Problem of Continence BOOK SEVEN: AGED THIRTY I-II Realisation That God is Incorruptible III-V The Problem of the Origin of Evil VI Finally Rejects Astrology XVIII-XXI The Need for Christ BOOK EIGHT: AGED THIRTY-ONE I-IV The Conversion of Victorians V-XII Augustine's Conversion BOOK NINE: AGED THIRTY-TWO I-VII Reception into the Church VIII-XIII The Death of Monica BOOK TEN: CONCLUDES AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSION I-V Why He Makes This Confession VI-VII What is God? VIII-XXV Analysis of Memory XXVI-XXIX Prayer XXX-XLI Augustine's Present State XLII-XLIII The True Mediator

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Francis Joseph Sheed (1897-1981) was a Catholic publisher, author and street orator and the founder of the Catholic publishing house of Sheed & Ward. His books include To Know Christ Jesus, Saints Are Not Sad, A Map of Life, Society and Sanity and Theology and Sanity.

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