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Introduction | p. 9 |
Chronological Outline of Augustline's Life for the Period Covered by the Confessions | p. 34 |
Revisions | p. 36 |
The Confessions | |
Infancy and Boyhood | p. 39 |
Opening prayer and meditation | p. 39 |
Infancy | p. 43 |
Learning to speak | p. 47 |
Augustine goes to school | p. 48 |
His baptism is deferred | p. 50 |
Latin and Greek studies | p. 52 |
Childish sins | p. 59 |
Thanksgiving | p. 60 |
Adolescence | p. 62 |
Sexual awakening | p. 62 |
A year at home | p. 64 |
Adolescent lust | p. 66 |
He robs a pear tree | p. 67 |
Question of motives | p. 68 |
The prodigal's wanderings begin | p. 74 |
Student Years at Carthage | p. 75 |
Student life: sex and shows | p. 75 |
The "wreckers" | p. 78 |
The quest for wisdom: Cicero's Hortensius | p. 79 |
Distaste for scripture | p. 80 |
He joins the Manichees | p. 80 |
Monica, grieved, is consoled by a vision | p. 89 |
"A son of tears" | p. 90 |
Augustine the Manichee | p. 92 |
Augustine sells rhetorical skills | p. 92 |
He begins to cohabit with an unnamed girl | p. 93 |
He investigates astrology | p. 94 |
Death of a friend at Thagaste | p. 96 |
Consolation in other friends at Carthage | p. 100 |
Transience of created things | p. 101 |
What is beauty? He writes a book | p. 105 |
He reads Aristotle's Categories | p. 109 |
Faustus at Carthage, Augustine to Rome and Milan | p. 113 |
Augustine hopes to question Faustus | p. 115 |
Valid observations of the natural world by "philosophers" | p. 115 |
Manichlean assertions about natural phenomena are astray | p. 118 |
Augustine is disappointed in Faustus | p. 119 |
Indiscipline among his students prompts move to Rome | p. 122 |
Monica's opposition; Augustine departs by stealth | p. 123 |
Illness in Rome; Manichean contacts | p. 125 |
Appeal of Academic skepticism | p. 127 |
Augustine teaches in Rome | p. 129 |
He wins a teaching post in Milan | p. 130 |
He arrives in Milan and meets Ambrose | p. 131 |
Milan, 385: Progress, Friends, Perplexities | p. 134 |
Monica comes to Milan | p. 134 |
Bishop Ambrose | p. 137 |
Augustine finds some enlightenment | p. 139 |
Hollowness of his secular ambitions; the drunken beggar | p. 142 |
Alypius | p. 144 |
Nebridius | p. 150 |
Perplexities and plans: philosophy and the problem of continence | p. 150 |
Projected marriage | p. 154 |
Dream of an ideal community | p. 155 |
Dismissal of Augustine's common-law wife; his grief | p. 156 |
Neo-Platonism Frees Augustine's Mind | p. 158 |
Materialistic notions of God insufficient | p. 158 |
The problem of evil | p. 161 |
The finally rejects astrology | p. 164 |
Still searching | p. 168 |
He reads "the books of the Platonists" | p. 169 |
The attempts Platonic ecstasy, but is "beaten back" | p. 172 |
New light on the problem of evil | p. 173 |
Fresh attempt at mounting to God; he attains That Which Is | p. 176 |
He realizes the need for Christ the Mediator | p. 178 |
Christ the Way | p. 180 |
Augustine discovers Saint Paul | p. 181 |
Conversion | p. 184 |
Conversation with Simplicianus | p. 186 |
Story of Victorinus' conversion | p. 186 |
Augustine longs to imitate him, but is hindered by lustful habit | p. 192 |
Conversation with Ponticianus | p. 194 |
Story of conversion of two court officials at Trier | p. 196 |
Struggle in the garden | p. 199 |
"Pick it up and read" | p. 206 |
Conversion of Augustine and Alypius Monica's joy | p. 207 |
Death and Rebirth | p. 209 |
Augustine decides to renounce his career | p. 210 |
To Cassiciacum with his mother, son, and friends | p. 213 |
He lives with the psalms | p. 214 |
They return to Milan and are baptized | p. 219 |
Used of hymns in liturgy | p. 220 |
Discovery of the bodies of two saints | p. 221 |
Monica's story | p. 222 |
Ostia | p. 226 |
Monica's death | p. 230 |
Augustine's grief | p. 231 |
Peace | p. 235 |
Memory | p. 237 |
Motives for confession | p. 237 |
Looking for God in creatures | p. 241 |
Looking the God in himself: the fields of memory | p. 244 |
Universal desire for happiness | p. 256 |
In memory he knows God | p. 260 |
"Give what you command" | p. 263 |
Concupiscence of the flesh: sense of touch | p. 263 |
Taste | p. 265 |
Smell | p. 268 |
Hearing | p. 269 |
Sight | p. 270 |
Concupiscence of the eyes | p. 273 |
The third great temptation: pride | p. 275 |
Summary of all his discoveries | p. 280 |
The Mediator, priest and victim | p. 281 |
Time and Eternity | p. 284 |
Augustine prays for understanding of the scriptures | p. 284 |
In the Beginning God made heaven and Earth | p. 287 |
God creates in his Word | p. 288 |
This Word is eternal | p. 290 |
The eternal Word is the Beginning | p. 291 |
"What was God doing before that?" Meaningless question | p. 293 |
Time, a creature of God-what is it? | p. 295 |
Movements of the heavenly bodies are not time itself, but only markers of it | p. 302 |
Perhaps time is tension of our consciousness | p. 305 |
Out time and God's eternity | p. 310 |
Heaven and Earth | p. 312 |
Heaven's heaven is the spiritual creation | p. 312 |
Formless matter, the abyss | p. 313 |
There was no time there | p. 317 |
Summary of foregoing remarks on spiritual and material creation | p. 319 |
Some people disagree with me about the spiritual and material creation | p. 321 |
Augustine's response to those who disagree | p. 324 |
The author's intention must be sought, in charity | p. 327 |
"If I had been Moses" | p. 334 |
How fruitful are these verses of Genesis! | p. 335 |
Conclusion: the one Truth, many human approaches | p. 339 |
The Days of Creation, Prophecy of the Church | p. 342 |
Why did God create? | p. 343 |
Not for any deserving on the creature's side | p. 344 |
God's Spirit, Third Person of the Trinity | p. 345 |
Allegorical interpretation of Gn 1. Day One: Light | p. 350 |
Day Two: The vault of scripture | p. 353 |
Day Three: Bitter sea, dry land, fruitfulness | p. 356 |
Day Four: Lamps of wisdom and knowledge | p. 357 |
Day Five: Sea creatures represent signs and sacraments | p. 360 |
Day Six: Animals, the living soul | p. 362 |
Humanity in God's image and likeness | p. 364 |
Increase and multiply | p. 368 |
God assigns them their food | p. 370 |
God saw that it was exceedingly good (against the Manichees) | p. 373 |
Summary of literal exegesis; man and woman | p. 376 |
Summary of allegorical exegesis | p. 377 |
Conclusion: rest on the seventh day | p. 379 |
Index of Scripture | p. 381 |
Index | p. 383 |
A Bibliographic Guide | p. 417 |
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