Sheed's classic translation of Augustine's Confessions. True to the original, and in a subtle and dignified English translation, let this be a cornerstone of your library.
'Here is a classic which can never grow musty and a story which is new today. Mr Sheed's excellent translation puts the book in reach of everyone.' - Catholic Herald
'Mr Sheed's translation must be pronounced a great success. It brings out the full meaning of the original, and in an author so full of subtle nuances and glittering phrases that a defy a rendering that is an achievement.' - Church Times
Autorentext
Francis Joseph Sheed (1897-1981) was a Catholic publisher, author and street orator and the founder of the Catholic publishing house of Sheed & Ward. His books include To Know Christ Jesus, Saints Are Not Sad, A Map of Life, Society and Sanity and Theology and Sanity.
Zusammenfassung
Sheed's classic translation of Augustine's Confessions. True to the original, and in a subtle and dignified English translation, let this be a cornerstone of your library.'Here is a classic which can never grow musty and a story which is new today. Mr Sheed's excellent translation puts the book in reach of everyone.' - Catholic Herald'Mr Sheed's translation must be pronounced a great success. It brings out the full meaning of the original, and in an author so full of subtle nuances and glittering phrases that a defy a rendering that is an achievement.' - Church Times
Inhalt
BOOK ONE: THE FIRST FIFTEEN YEARS
I-V Prayer to God and Meditation upon God
VI-VII Augustine's Infancy
VIII Learning to Speak
IX-XIX Schooldays
XX Reasons for Gratitude to God
BOOK TWO: THE SIXTEENTH YEAR
I-III Adolescence
IV-X Robbing a Pear-tree
BOOK THREE: FROM SIXTEEN TO EIGHTEEN
I-III First Days at Carthage
IV-V Cicero and Scripture
VI-X Joins the Manichees
XI-XII His Mother's Anxiety
BOOK FOUR: FROM EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY-SEVEN
I-III Searching for Deliverance
IV-IX Loss of a Friend
X-XII The Transience of Created Things
XIII-XV He writes a Book
XVI Reads Aristotle on the Categories
BOOK FIVE: AGED TWENTY-EIGHT
I-II Prayer
III-VII Faustus Comes to Carthage
VIII-XII Augustine Goes to Rome
XIII-XIV At Milan
BOOK SIX: AGED TWENTY-NINE
I-II Monica Comes to Milan
III-V His Mind Still Searches
VI Disappointments in Worldly Affairs
VII-X Alypius and Nebridius
XI-XVI The Problem of Continence
BOOK SEVEN: AGED THIRTY
I-II Realisation That God is Incorruptible
III-V The Problem of the Origin of Evil
VI Finally Rejects Astrology
XVIII-XXI The Need for Christ
BOOK EIGHT: AGED THIRTY-ONE
I-IV The Conversion of Victorians
V-XII Augustine's Conversion
BOOK NINE: AGED THIRTY-TWO
I-VII Reception into the Church
VIII-XIII The Death of Monica
BOOK TEN: CONCLUDES AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSION
I-V Why He Makes This Confession
VI-VII What is God?
VIII-XXV Analysis of Memory
XXVI-XXIX Prayer
XXX-XLI Augustine's Present State
XLII-XLIII The True Mediator