What Is The Key Idea Of Augustine's Confessions

Augustine writes about many subjects. He speaks of his child life, his life as a young man, and goes on to his conversion and his life afterwards. All of these are written very well, but one might ask what is the key concept within Saint Augustine’s confessions. There are many in his book, but one of the main ones is conversion. Augustine starts out his confessions by speaking about his infancy and his childhood. During his infancy, there is a type of conversion from infant to child. In chapter 7 of book 1, Augustine describes how even babies are prone to sin and how these petty sins are usually cast off as one grows older. Later on in chapters 10, one can see his conversion to sin as a young child. There is another conversion in chapter 11 also when Augustine, fearing death, pleads for baptism which is put off when he recovers.
Nearly all of book two relates the story of these years which were full of atrocities. In chapter 6, he relates how he had progressed so far into this evil as to even steal pears just for the delight of the sin itself. This part of his life contains an obvious example of the key concept.
Books 7 and 8 proceed during his early years of thirty. The first four chapters of Augustine’s confessions tell of how he slowly overcame the deceits of the Manichaeans, Astrologers, and deviations, which are only a few of the falsities that he prevailed over. In book eight, Augustine writes of his conversion to Christianity. He relates in the first seven chapters many stories of others who had chosen God over the world and he reveals those concerns which he struggles over. Finally, in chapter 12, he records his religious conversion to Christianity which he found so