Augustine Confessions Research Paper

Augustinus Aurelius, better known as Augustine was born in the 354 in Tasgaste which is currently referred to as Algeria. His mother was a devoted Christian whose name was Monica. However, his father was a pagan who was a Roman official known as Patricius. Augustine was a brilliant person who made his parents take him to one of the best schools around. At school, he studied rhetoric which involves the study of persuasive speech which he studied in Carthage. Some of the Latin authors tried to convince him that truth is the life's ultimate and supreme goal. However, Augustine could not find the truth in Christianity for the reason that he saw religion as for the simple minded in the society. In his confession, after getting a child with a concubine in his teens, he says that he went to Carthage where he found all sorts of the cauldron of the unholy love was all around him (Capps pp 551-559). Confessions is an autobiography with theological, philosophical and a critical interpretation of the Christianity. Confessions theme encounters the redemption of Augustine and the painful process he encounters through his journey of temptations and his returning to God and the Christianity teachings.
Augustine was known to be a hard to change the individual. His restlessness drove him into the embracing of Manichaeism which was a popular religion which embraced a dualistic view of the world as a war between the dark and the light, a war between the flesh and the spirit. It has been recorded
"Augustine’s Confessions: The story of a divided self and the process of its unification." Pastoral Psychology 55.5 (2007): 551-569.
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