The confessions of St. Augustine.

National Review | January 11, 1985| | Copyright

The Confessions of ST. AUGUSTINE

IT HAS BEEN years now since I first read the Confessions of St. Augustine. It was when I was in my late twenties, before I started college, in fact before I had ever gone to school at all. St. Augustine was part of my self-made education, and the saint taught me a lot--not only about how things were in the late Roman Empire, but about the human heart and its response to God. I first met the work in a Tennessee junk shop, in a tattered paperback I bought for a dime. Few of my dimes have been better spent. Reading the Confessions ...

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