{"product_id":"9781780789545","title":"Confessions","description":"\u003ci\u003e\"Spirituality involves taking our personal experience seriously as raw material for redemption and holiness, examining the material of our daily lives with as much rigor as we do Scripture and doctrine. Confessions is the landmark work in this exercise.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eugene Peterson \u003cp\u003eSaint Augustine wasn't always a saint. He led a turbulent and licentious youth, and belonged to the fourth century equivalent of a street gang. At the age of 29, he met a young man, Ambrose, whose intelligence, kindness and strong faith fascinated and puzzled Augustine. Then at the age of thirty-two, under Ambrose's tutelage, Augustine converted to Christianity and went on to be one of the most influential Christians throughout history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten in 400 AD, less than a decade after his ordination to the priesthood, a mere four years after becoming bishop of Hippo, he wrote \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eConfessions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e in his forties. He was a man looking back and looking forward, an apt simile perhaps for the role Augustine played in the history of the Church, that of a bridge between two distinct eras.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eConfessions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e traces a pilgrimage of unbounded grace, passionately wrestling with the spiritual questions that have engaged thoughtful minds since time began. It is Augustine's utter candor about his own sin and his struggle to reconcile his mind and soul to God's holy character that made \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eConfessions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e the classic that it has been for fifteen centuries and compelling to readers still today.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCompanion volume to HP's trade paper edition of Augustine's City of God\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eClassic text, edited by Albert Cook Outler\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLarger, easy-to-read edition\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCompetitively priced\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"It is difficult to find a theologian - from any age - who has not been influenced by the teachings of St. Augustine.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Richard Foster, \u003ci\u003eDevotional Classics\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Authentic Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169424949488,"sku":"9781780789545","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780789545_p0.jpg?v=1763715197","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780789545","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}