Confessions: Deep Review

Original academic guide to Confessions by Augustine of Hippo.

• Great Books & Ideas
• 33 min
• Ages 15–99
• 10 chapters

About this audiobook

Augustine's prayerful intellectual autobiography of desire, memory, error, grief, conversion, time, scripture, and the restless search for God.

Why it's worth a listen

Treat Confessions simultaneously as theology, autobiography, philosophy, and crafted retrospective argument, attending to its brilliance and its severe judgments.

Based on the book by Augustine of Hippo, published by Emma's Library

Chapters

1. The Problem This Book Is Trying To Solve
2. The Historical and Intellectual Crucible of Late Antiquity
3. The Central Argument: Restlessness and the Anatomy of Desire
4. Memory, Time, and the Interior Landscape
5. The Rhetoric of Conversion and Retrospective Self-Fashioning
6. Why Scholars Still Assign It: The Birth of the Western Self
7. What Is Brilliant: The Synthesis of Platonism and Scripture
8. What Is Dangerous or Dated: The Severe Judgments on Body and Will
9. How to Read It Without Getting Lost: Navigating the Thirteen Books
10. Who Should Read It Now: The Restless Modern Searcher