I listened to it on audio in 2013.Sorry if I placed this in the wrong area.
There are 22 books in all, of which I have read 7. Have you read every book in The City of God?
Yeah, having been thru the whole thing, along with a lot of his other writings, my take is that he seriously needed an editor.
Wow! Thatās a lot of reading!
I go thru a volume every quarter (three months). I divide the material into 90 segments by Kindle ālocation,ā and read every evening while Iām waiting for my night-time meds to kick in. It amounts to about 20 minutes a day, with text-to-speech set on fast.
Thatās awesome. BTW the Church Fathers wrote a lot more than 37 volumes. Thatās just a popular edition of some of their most important works, translated in the 1800s. Itās good though, Iām not trying to discourage you, just clarify because Iāve seen some people assert that All of the Church Fathersā writings can be read in that 37 volume set, and thatās far from accurate. Good job though! (This is actually supposed to be a positive remark, not a negative one.)
You are correct; the 37 volumes is only part of the total body of literature. Iād like to read them all, but 1) I donāt have enough time left in my life, and 2) my knowledge of Greek and Latin is nowhere near good enough.
I donāt think itās absolutely necessary to read Confessions first. You could still proceed to read it. I guess you could say that it helps to read Confessions though.
It probably does. Besides, the Confessions, being more personal, are easier to read (and help explain where some of his theological ideas - most notably on sex - come from).
Indeed. Itās not an absolute but it helps.