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dilla davis posted a review at 2009-04-29 04:54:03.
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as a sinner, it gives me hope...
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A reader posted a review at 2009-04-06 23:12:36.
(Language: English)
This book was highly recommended, but I must give it 3 stars. I think in places his writing is incoherent, in other spots it is beautiful and poetic. I think he could have used a good editor. Overall of course a very honest book about common struggles many Christians face.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-03-31 17:32:23.
(Language: English)
what a whiny man
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A reader posted a review at 2009-03-27 13:03:42.
(Language: English)
One of the pinnacle books of western thought. It is a must read for anyone interested in theology or philosophy.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-03-20 13:09:27.
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Good read.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-03-11 14:46:30.
(Language: English)
Have only read books 1-4 and 11 thus far...the first four are worth trudging through for the later conclusions!
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Zach posted a review at 2009-03-10 17:08:43.
(Language: English)
The last sentence of Conf. 1.1.1, "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you,' announces the major theme of Augustine's work. If read with this theme in mind, one will have an easier time detecting the unity of the content of 'The Confessions'. As when Augustine compares himself and his friends to a bum in Bk VII, believing a homeless man to possess less cares and anxieties than he himself, and when Augustine weeps copiously in the garden in Milan, in Bk. VIII, one can perceive the restlessness within the heart of this sensitive and intelligent young man. His search for God is marked by this anxiety, beginning with his having read Cicero's 'Hortensius' at the age of nineteen. And it is only through God that Augustine finally musters the will to Christian conversion, showing to his readers that God is both the means and the end of his conversion.
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Mike posted a review at 2009-03-10 08:09:32.
(Language: English)
Augustine is one of history's greatest geniuses. Although the setting is ancient Rome, this book often reads like to was written in the past century. You will find it easy to indetify with Augustine and his many struggles. This book will forever be a classic because it will forever be relevent.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-03-07 18:10:03.
(Language: Croatian)
Knjiga koja nam govori o počecima vremena, iskupljenju i obraćenju, što još reći o ovom velikom djelu, velikog pisca i sveca.Ne glibite se već je uzmite.
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