St Augustine's 'Confessions'

[Monica4316]

I’m reading this book right now

is there anyone else here who has read it? what did you think? what did you most like about it?

 

[Thursdayhat]

I think the aspect of Confessions that stood out most to me was St. Augustine’s brutal and unrelenting honesty. It’s reassuring to recall that the worst of us today are prudes compared to the ancient pagan societies, and to know that men could become holy even in that environment.

But his honesty is really shocking. You really get the sense he is talking to God, and that he has abandoned all shame, which perhaps he could not do if he was only addressing the audience of the work.

 

[Jez1519]

I’ve been reading it since i purchased it in October last year. The reason i still haven’t finished it is simply because, as a convert, i have that many books that i’ve bought and desire to read that i read little bits at a time from numerous volumes.
Nevertheless, St Augustine certainly pulls no punches. I’ve just been reading him where he discusses the timelessness of God and His commands, which i thought particularly poignant in today’s age of the denial of any objective truths, and the prominence of a multitude of subjective personal truths, according to one’s whims and desires or the particular predilections of a society at any given point in its history. Greatly relevant stuff. I will concede, however, that one has to persevere with the Confessions, as i didn’t find it easy initially.