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A 5 page research paper/essay that offers an overview on this text by a founding father of the ancient Roman Catholic Church. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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the immense variety of subjects he addressed.1 He is acknowledged by scholars to be the most significant theologian in the ancient Western church.2 Augustines Confessions, which was written around 400,
offers a detailed autobiography. The point of this volume is to offer Augustines readers a history of the evolution and development of his soul, as this narrative recounts the spiritual
journey that led Augustine to a life devoted to God.3 In Book I, Augustine relates the formative events of his childhood, tracing his development to age fifteen. His birthplace was
Thagaste, which is in present-day Algeria in north Africa.4 When Augustine was born the Western Roman Empire still existed in northern Africa. Therefore, his lifespan functions as a "bridge between
the dying Classical era and the embryonic Christian world."5 Born to a Christian mother and a pagan father, Augustine did not convert to Christianity until he was 33. He
rose in the Church hierarchy and it was after he was made the Bishop of Hippo that his writing began to flourish and consequently came to influence Christian theology for
the next millennium.6 The first chapter of Confessions is significant on a number of levels. For one thing, Augustine introduces a principal theme at this point, which is that "interior
grace precedes faith."7 Augustine argues that it is impossible "to believe without having heard," yet is also impossible for the individual to believe and have faith "unless the Holy Spirit
is already working" with the soul, preparing the individual to accept the truth of what is heard, or else the person will be like the "barren soil" of the parable
of the seeds.8 As this suggests, in the opening chapter of The Confessions, Augustine poses nearly the same questions as St. Paul in Romans Chapter 10.9 In describing his adolescence,
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