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catalog alternative "Confessiones. English".
catalog contributor b5500875.
catalog contributor b5500876.
catalog contributor b5500877.
catalog contributor b5500878.
catalog coverage "Hippo (Extinct city) Biography.".
catalog created "c1993.".
catalog date "1993".
catalog date "c1993.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
catalog description "pt. 1. The first fifteen years: -- Prayer to God and meditation upon God -- Augustine's infancy -- Learning to speak -- Schooldays -- Reasons for gratitude to God -- pt. 2. The sixteenth year: -- Adolescence -- Robbing a pear-tree -- pt. 3. From sixteen to eighteen: -- First days at Carthage -- Cicero and scripture -- Joins the Manichees -- Hos mother's anxiety -- pt. 4. Form eighteen to twenty-seven: -- Searching for deliverance -- Loss of a friend -- The transcience of created things -- He writes a book -- Reads Aristotle on the Categories -- pt. 5. Aged twenty-eight: -- Prayer -- Faustus comes to Carthage -- Augustine goes to Rome -- At Milan -- pt. 6. Aged twenty-nine: -- Monica comes to Milan -- His mind still searches -- Disappointments in wordly affairs -- Alypius and Nebridius -- The problem of continence -- pt. 7. Aged thirty: -- Realisation that God is incorruptible -- The problem of the origin of evil -- Finally rejects astrology -- Beginning of Emancipation from too corporeal thinking -- pt. 8. Aged thirty-one: -- The conversion of Victorinus -- Augustine's conversion -- pt. 9. Aged thirty-two: -- Reception into the church -- The death of Monica -- pt. 10. Concludes Augustine's confession: -- Why he makes this confession -- What is God? -- Analysis of memory -- Prayer -- Augustine's present state -- The true meditator -- pt. 11. In the beginning God created (Genesis I, i): -- Why he writes -- His passionate desire to meditate upon God's law -- He would know the meaning of Gen. I,1 -- God created heaven and earth in his word -- How did God speak his word? -- Meaning of "In the beginning" -- Time and the universe began together -- What is time? -- Eternal knowledge.".
catalog description "pt. 12. ... Heaven and earth (Genesis I, 1-2): -- Truth has given a promise -- Heaven does not mean the sky but the heaven of heaven -- Earth means sheer formlessness -- Summarizes all we have learnt thus far of creation -- The creation of the material heaven and earth -- Why the creation of heaven and earth (of Gen. I,1) is not in the enumeration of days -- He answers those who deny that this is what Moses meant by Gen. I,1 -- Whether Moses meant this or not, it is true -- Their various statements of what Moses meant -- It does not greatly matter, provided all are true in themselves -- Various interpretations of Gen. I,2 -- Discussion of two of these interpretations -- Fruitlessness of wrangling -- Had he been Moses -- How the uninstructed conceive creation -- Another interpretation in the beghinning -- The right attitude of mind and heart -- pt. 13. The days of creation (Genesis I, 2-31): -- God does not need us -- Why God created -- Be light made (verse 3) -- Moved over the waters (verse 2) -- The blessed trinity in the account of creation -- Why it is written that the Spirit moved over the waters -- Be light made -- Why it is written that Father and Son moved over the waters -- Be light made -- The blessed Trinity -- He divided the light from the darkness (verse 4) -- Let there be a firmament made -- .. and let it divide the waters from the waters (verse 6) -- An earth without water -- Let the waters be gathered together ... Let the earth bring forth fruit (verse 9) -- Let there be light made in firmament of heaven 9verse 14) -- Let the waters bring forth ... (verse 20) -- Let the earth bring forth the living creature (verse 24) -- Let us make man to our image and likeness (verse 26) -- Let him have dominion (verse 28) -- Incresed and multiply (verse 28) -- ... That they may have to feed upon (verse 30) -- God saw all the things that he had made (verse 31) -- Figurative signification of the order of creation -- The seventh day.".
catalog extent "xxxi, 294 p. ;".
catalog identifier "0872201864 (pbk.)".
catalog identifier "0872201872".
catalog issued "1993".
catalog issued "c1993.".
catalog language "eng lat".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co.,".
catalog spatial "Algeria Hippo (Extinct city)".
catalog spatial "Hippo (Extinct city) Biography.".
catalog subject "242 20".
catalog subject "Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.".
catalog subject "BR65.A6 E5 1993".
catalog subject "Christian saints Algeria Hippo (Extinct city) Biography.".
catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. The first fifteen years: -- Prayer to God and meditation upon God -- Augustine's infancy -- Learning to speak -- Schooldays -- Reasons for gratitude to God -- pt. 2. The sixteenth year: -- Adolescence -- Robbing a pear-tree -- pt. 3. From sixteen to eighteen: -- First days at Carthage -- Cicero and scripture -- Joins the Manichees -- Hos mother's anxiety -- pt. 4. Form eighteen to twenty-seven: -- Searching for deliverance -- Loss of a friend -- The transcience of created things -- He writes a book -- Reads Aristotle on the Categories -- pt. 5. Aged twenty-eight: -- Prayer -- Faustus comes to Carthage -- Augustine goes to Rome -- At Milan -- pt. 6. Aged twenty-nine: -- Monica comes to Milan -- His mind still searches -- Disappointments in wordly affairs -- Alypius and Nebridius -- The problem of continence -- pt. 7. Aged thirty: -- Realisation that God is incorruptible -- The problem of the origin of evil -- Finally rejects astrology -- Beginning of Emancipation from too corporeal thinking -- pt. 8. Aged thirty-one: -- The conversion of Victorinus -- Augustine's conversion -- pt. 9. Aged thirty-two: -- Reception into the church -- The death of Monica -- pt. 10. Concludes Augustine's confession: -- Why he makes this confession -- What is God? -- Analysis of memory -- Prayer -- Augustine's present state -- The true meditator -- pt. 11. In the beginning God created (Genesis I, i): -- Why he writes -- His passionate desire to meditate upon God's law -- He would know the meaning of Gen. I,1 -- God created heaven and earth in his word -- How did God speak his word? -- Meaning of "In the beginning" -- Time and the universe began together -- What is time? -- Eternal knowledge.".
catalog tableOfContents "pt. 12. ... Heaven and earth (Genesis I, 1-2): -- Truth has given a promise -- Heaven does not mean the sky but the heaven of heaven -- Earth means sheer formlessness -- Summarizes all we have learnt thus far of creation -- The creation of the material heaven and earth -- Why the creation of heaven and earth (of Gen. I,1) is not in the enumeration of days -- He answers those who deny that this is what Moses meant by Gen. I,1 -- Whether Moses meant this or not, it is true -- Their various statements of what Moses meant -- It does not greatly matter, provided all are true in themselves -- Various interpretations of Gen. I,2 -- Discussion of two of these interpretations -- Fruitlessness of wrangling -- Had he been Moses -- How the uninstructed conceive creation -- Another interpretation in the beghinning -- The right attitude of mind and heart -- pt. 13. The days of creation (Genesis I, 2-31): -- God does not need us -- Why God created -- Be light made (verse 3) -- Moved over the waters (verse 2) -- The blessed trinity in the account of creation -- Why it is written that the Spirit moved over the waters -- Be light made -- Why it is written that Father and Son moved over the waters -- Be light made -- The blessed Trinity -- He divided the light from the darkness (verse 4) -- Let there be a firmament made -- .. and let it divide the waters from the waters (verse 6) -- An earth without water -- Let the waters be gathered together ... Let the earth bring forth fruit (verse 9) -- Let there be light made in firmament of heaven 9verse 14) -- Let the waters bring forth ... (verse 20) -- Let the earth bring forth the living creature (verse 24) -- Let us make man to our image and likeness (verse 26) -- Let him have dominion (verse 28) -- Incresed and multiply (verse 28) -- ... That they may have to feed upon (verse 30) -- God saw all the things that he had made (verse 31) -- Figurative signification of the order of creation -- The seventh day.".
catalog title "Confessiones. English".
catalog title "Confessions : books I-XIII / Augustine ; translated by F.J. Sheed ; introduced by Peter Brown.".
catalog type "Biography. fast".
catalog type "text".