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[9] Augustine picks up a book of St. Paul's writings (codex apostoli, 8.12.29) and reads the passage it opens to, Romans 13:13–14: "Not in revelry and drunkenness, not in debauchery and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy; but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and as for the flesh, take no thought for its lusts."
Augustine was one of the most prolific Latin authors in terms of surviving works, and the list of his works consists of more than one hundred separate titles. He wrote a book before converting to Christianity, De Pulchra et Apto (380), which was already lost by the time he wrote most of his work. [ 1 ]
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Confessions, a 4th-century autobiographical work by St. Augustine of Hippo; Confession, an 1851 autobiographical work by Mikhail Bakunin; Confessions, a 1782–1789 autobiography by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Confessions series, a 1970s series of novels by Christopher Wood, and their film adaptations
Augustine gave an argument for the theory in chapter 12 (paragraph 18) of book 7 of his Confessions: And it was made clear unto me that those things are good which yet are corrupted, which, neither were they supremely good, nor unless they were good, could be corrupted; because if supremely good, they were incorruptible, and if not good at all ...
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Augustine wrote De peccatorum meritis et remissione libri III (Three Books on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins) in 412, and De spiritu et littera (On the Spirit and the Letter) in 414. When in 414 disquieting rumours arrived from Sicily and the so-called Definitiones Caelestii , said to be the work of Caelestius, were sent to him, he at once ...
Restless Heart: The Confessions of Saint Augustine (distributed in the US as: Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire, Italian: Sant'Agostino) is a 2010 two-part television miniseries chronicling the life of St. Augustine, [1] the early Christian theologian, writer and Bishop of Hippo Regius at the time of the Vandal invasion (AD 430).