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Confessions
Confessionum libri XIII
Thirteen books addressed to God in the second person. The first nine narrate Augustine's life from infancy to his conversion in 386, his baptism and Monica's death at Ostia: the theft of the pears, the death of his friend, Manichaeism, Ambrose, the books of the Platonists, the garden in Milan. Book X examines memory and the temptations of the bishop who is writing; book XI is a meditation on time as the distension of the soul; books XII and XIII interpret the first chapter of Genesis. Confessio means both acknowledgement of guilt and praise; the unity of the book, much debated by critics, lies in that double confession. It is the first great introspective autobiography of the West and one of the most read books of late antiquity.
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Authorship note
Written c. 397–401 (date debated); reviewed in Retractationes II. Critical text: Verheijen, CCSL 27 (1981); Skutella (Teubner, 1934).
Editions and translations
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English
Augustine of Hippo
Confessions
The Conscious LibraryConfessions
Modern Library, 2017
Translation: Sarah Ruden
ISBN 9780812996562
Confessions
Oxford University Press, 2008
Translation: Henry Chadwick
ISBN 9780199537822
Oxford World's Classics.
The Confessions
New City Press, 1997
Translation: Maria Boulding
ISBN 9781565480834
The Works of Saint Augustine I/1.
Confessions
Penguin Books, 1961
Translation: R. S. Pine-Coffin
ISBN 9780140441147
Penguin Classics.
Latín
St. Augustine's Confessions (Loeb Classical Library 26–27)
Harvard University Press / W. Heinemann, 1950
Translation: William Watts (1631)
ISBN 9780674990296
Texto latino con la traducción inglesa de William Watts revisada por W. H. D. Rouse.
Augustine of Hippo
Confessionum libri XIII (CCSL 27)
The Conscious LibraryConfessionum libri XIII (CCSL 27)
Brepols, 1981
Edición crítica de Lucas Verheijen; ISBN no localizado en catálogo.
Augustine of Hippo
Confessionum libri XIII
The Conscious LibraryConfessionum libri XIII
B. G. Teubner, 1981
ISBN 9783519011064
Edición de Martin Skutella (1934), revisada por H. Juergens y W. Schaub.
Italiano
Augustine of Hippo
Confessioni
The Conscious LibraryConfessioni
Fondazione Lorenzo Valla / A. Mondadori, 1992
ISBN 9788804330592
Texto críticamente revisado, con traducción italiana; 5 vols. (1992–1997).
Deutsch
Augustine of Hippo
Bekenntnisse
The Conscious LibraryBekenntnisse
Verlag der Weltreligionen, 2007
Translation: Joseph Bernhart
ISBN 9783458700050
Español
Confesiones
Alianza Editorial, 2011
Translation: Pedro Rodríguez de Santidrián
ISBN 9788420653402
Obras completas de San Agustín II: Las confesiones
Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 2013
ISBN 9788422016564
Edición bilingüe latín-español (BAC); otras reimpresiones con ISBN 9788479140472 (2002) y 9788422021162 (2019).
Other works by Augustine of Hippo
- The City of God · 413
- On the Trinity · 400
- On Christian Teaching · 396
- Enchiridion on Faith, Hope and Charity · 421
- Expositions of the Psalms · 392
- Tractates on the Gospel of John · 406
- Homilies on the First Epistle of John · 407
- Letters · 386
- Sermons · 391
- Retractations · 426
- On the Beautiful and the Fitting · 380
- Against the Academics · 386
- On the Happy Life · 386
- On Order · 386
- Soliloquies · 387
- On the Immortality of the Soul · 387
- On Grammar · 387
- On Dialectic · 387
- On Music · 388
- On the Morals of the Catholic Church and of the Manichaeans · 388
- On the Greatness of the Soul · 388
- On Free Choice of the Will · 388
- On Genesis against the Manichaeans · 388
- On the Teacher · 389
- On True Religion · 390
- On the Advantage of Believing · 391
- On the Two Souls · 391
- Debate with Fortunatus the Manichaean · 392
- On Faith and the Creed · 393
- Unfinished Literal Commentary on Genesis · 393
- On the Lord's Sermon on the Mount · 394
- Psalm against the Party of Donatus · 393
- Against the Letter of Donatus the Heretic · 393
- Against Adimantus, a Disciple of Mani · 394
- Exposition of Some Propositions from the Letter to the Romans · 394
- Commentary on the Letter to the Galatians · 394
- Unfinished Commentary on the Letter to the Romans · 394
- On Eighty-Three Varied Questions · 388
- On Lying · 395
- To Simplician, on Various Questions · 396
- Against the Letter of Mani called 'The Foundation' · 396
- On the Christian Combat · 396
- Against the Party of Donatus · 397
- Reply to Faustus the Manichaean · 400
- Against Felix the Manichaean · 404
- On the Nature of the Good · 399
- Against Secundinus the Manichaean · 399
- Against Hilarus · 399
- Questions on the Gospels · 399
- Notes on Job · 399
- On Catechising the Uninstructed · 400
- On the Harmony of the Evangelists · 400
- Against the Letter of Parmenian · 400
- On Baptism · 400
- Against What Centurius Brought from the Donatists · 400
- Replies to the Enquiries of Januarius · 400
- On the Work of Monks · 400
- On the Good of Marriage · 401
- On Holy Virginity · 401
- The Literal Meaning of Genesis · 401
- Answer to the Letters of Petilian · 401
- Against Cresconius the Donatist Grammarian · 405
- Proofs and Testimonies against the Donatists · 406
- Against an Unknown Donatist · 406
- Admonition to the Donatists concerning the Maximianists · 406
- On the Divination of Demons · 406
- Six Questions against the Pagans · 408
- Exposition of the Letter of James · 400
- On the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and the Baptism of Infants · 411
- On the One Baptism, against Petilian · 410
- On the Maximianists, against the Donatists · 410
- On the Grace of the New Testament, to Honoratus · 412
- On the Spirit and the Letter · 412
- On Faith and Works · 413
- Summary of the Conference with the Donatists · 411
- To the Donatists after the Conference · 412
- On Seeing God · 413
- On Nature and Grace · 415
- To Orosius, against the Priscillianists and Origenists · 415
- To the Priest Jerome · 415
- To Emeritus, Donatist Bishop, after the Conference · 415
- On the Perfection of Human Righteousness · 415
- On the Proceedings of Pelagius · 417
- On the Correction of the Donatists · 417
- On the Presence of God, to Dardanus · 417
- On the Grace of Christ and on Original Sin · 418
- Sermon to the People of the Church of Caesarea in the Presence of Emeritus · 418
- Proceedings with Emeritus, Donatist Bishop · 418
- Against an Arian Sermon · 419
- On Marriage and Concupiscence · 419
- Expressions in the Heptateuch · 419
- Questions on the Heptateuch · 419
- On the Soul and its Origin · 419
- Against Lying · 420
- Against Gaudentius, Donatist Bishop · 420
- Against the Adversary of the Law and the Prophets · 420
- Against Two Letters of the Pelagians · 420
- Against Julian · 421
- On the Care to be Taken for the Dead · 421
- On the Eight Questions of Dulcitius · 424
- On Grace and Free Will · 426
- On Rebuke and Grace · 426
- The Mirror · 427
- Debate with Maximinus, Arian Bishop · 427
- Against Maximinus the Arian · 428
- On Heresies, to Quodvultdeus · 428
- On the Predestination of the Saints · 428
- On the Gift of Perseverance · 429
- Unfinished Work against Julian · 429
- Treatise against the Jews · 429
- On Continence · 412
- On the Good of Widowhood · 414
- On Patience · 417
- On Faith in Things Unseen · 400
- On the Creed, to the Catechumens · 425
- On the Usefulness of Fasting · 408
- On the Sack of the City of Rome · 410
- Sermon on Christian Discipline · 410
- Rule of Saint Augustine · 397
- Letter to Catholics on the Donatist Sect (On the Unity of the Church) · 402
- Soliloquies of the Soul to God (pseudo-Augustinian) · 1250
- Meditations (pseudo-Augustinian) · 1050
- Manual (pseudo-Augustinian) · 1150
- On the Spirit and the Soul · 1160
- Questions on the Old and New Testaments · 375
- Hypomnesticon against the Pelagians and Caelestians · 430
- Sermons to the Brothers in the Desert · 1300
- On True and False Penance · 1050
- Book of Ecclesiastical Dogmas · 480
- On the Faith, to Peter · 523
- On the Wonders of Holy Scripture · 655
- The Ten Categories (Themistian Paraphrase) · 380
- On Rhetoric · 400
- The Ladder of Monks · 1150
- Mirror of the Sinner · 1300
- Against Felician the Arian, on the Unity of the Trinity · 480
- On the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary · 1100
- Spurious Sermons of the Appendix · 500
Sources
- Agustín de Hipona. Confessionum libri XIII. Ed. Lucas Verheijen. Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 27. Turnhout: Brepols, 1981. Trad. inglesa de Henry Chadwick, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
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