Confessions
Trade paperback edition in very good condition. Translated by Sarah Ruden.
“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. it has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”
Augustine’s Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine tells the story of his sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. He describes his journey from a humble farm in North Africa to a prestigious post in the Roman Imperial capital of Milan, his struggle against his own overpowering sexuality, his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage, and the recovery of the faith his mother had taught him during his earliest years.
Grounded in her command of Latin as it was written and spoken in the ancient world, Sarah Ruden’s fresh, dynamic translation of Confessions brings us closer to Augustine’s intent than any other previous version.
Trade paperback edition in very good condition. Translated by Sarah Ruden.
“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. it has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”
Augustine’s Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine tells the story of his sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. He describes his journey from a humble farm in North Africa to a prestigious post in the Roman Imperial capital of Milan, his struggle against his own overpowering sexuality, his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage, and the recovery of the faith his mother had taught him during his earliest years.
Grounded in her command of Latin as it was written and spoken in the ancient world, Sarah Ruden’s fresh, dynamic translation of Confessions brings us closer to Augustine’s intent than any other previous version.
Trade paperback edition in very good condition. Translated by Sarah Ruden.
“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. it has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”
Augustine’s Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine tells the story of his sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. He describes his journey from a humble farm in North Africa to a prestigious post in the Roman Imperial capital of Milan, his struggle against his own overpowering sexuality, his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage, and the recovery of the faith his mother had taught him during his earliest years.
Grounded in her command of Latin as it was written and spoken in the ancient world, Sarah Ruden’s fresh, dynamic translation of Confessions brings us closer to Augustine’s intent than any other previous version.
ISBN 978-0-8129-8648-8
Augustine
2017 (this translation)