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Reviews and Recommendations
We've comprehensively compiled reviews of Confessions from the world's leading experts.
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Susan Jacoby The Confessions is a book that everybody should read. It is seminal, if you can excuse the expression. (Source)
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Carlos Eire St Augustine of Hippo was one of the first thinkers to struggle with the concepts of time, memory and eternity. (Source)
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Richard Harries He was a wonderful, wonderful writer and a deeply passionate man. He was very sensual. (Source)
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Simon Yarrow What he’s making is an incredibly modern, intimate, psychological diagnosis of the human condition. (Source)
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A N Wilson A lot of people think becoming a Christian is a decision you make. St Augustine doesn’t really think that. (Source)
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Paula Fredriksen For the reader it’s somewhat like crashing a session of classic psychoanalytic therapy: Augustine speaks, God just listens, and we overhear. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Confessions is ranked in the following categories:
- #23 in Ancient
- #81 in Apologetics
- #62 in Autobiography
- #57 in Bible History
- #3 in Catholicism
- #45 in Christian
- #10 in Christian Theology
- #67 in Classical
- #51 in Daily Devotional
- #13 in Devotion
- #27 in Devotional
- #21 in Faith
- #21 in Free Will
- #42 in God
- #6 in History of Christianity
- #86 in Jesus
- #7 in Latin
- #37 in Leather
- #54 in Leather Bound
- #45 in Mysticism
- #59 in Philosophy
- #12 in Religion
- #95 in Rome
- #57 in Spiritual
- #54 in Spirituality
- #3 in Theology