Fifth volume of the long-awaited translation of one of Augustines classics and a great work in Christian literature. Newly translated by Maria Boulding, O.S.B., whose masterful translation of Augustines Confessions in the same series has been praised as being of a different level of excellence from practically anything else in the market (Bishop Rowan Williams, Monmouth, England). As the psalms are a microcosm of the Old Testament, so the Expositions of the Psalms can be seen as a microcosm of Augustinian thought. They recapitulate and focus the experiences of Augustines personal life, his...

St. Augustine of Hippo lived a life of sin until his conversion to Christianity at the age of 32. Twelve years later he gave a personal account of his search for truth in The Confessions of Saint Augustine.

Augustine is one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity. In his early years he was heavily influenced by Manichaeism and afterwards by the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus, but after his conversion and baptism in 387, he developed his own approach to philosophy and theology accommodating a variety of methods and different perspectives. He believed that the...

-- EDITOR'S GUARANTEE: IF YOU BUY THIS BOOK AND DO NOT THINK THE TRANSLATION EXCELLENT, YOU CAN RECEIVE A FULL REFUND -- "The Confessions" of Saint Augustine is the first and also the most famous autobiography ever written. In it, Augustine, widely considered to be the greatest of the Church Fathers, traces the evolution of his mind and thought from his infancy to his conversion to Christianity and beyond, including memorable events and persons in his life, such as his mother, St Monica, whose prayers and tears over 30 years helped bring about Augustine's conversion, and St Ambrose, whose...