[easyazon-image align=”center” asin=”B00AQM75SC” locale=”us” height=”500″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zzYkZkTqL.jpg” width=”333″][easyazon-link asin=”B00AQM75SC” locale=”us”]The Confessions of St. Augustine[/easyazon-link] |
| Understandably fascinated by the story of Augustine’s life, modern readers have largely succumbed to the temptation to read the Confessions as autobiography. But, Garry Wills argues, this is a mistake. The book is not autobiography but rather a long prayer, suffused with the language of Scripture and addressed to God, not man. Augustine tells the story of his life not for its own significance but in order to discern how, as a drama of sin and salvation leading to God, it fits into sacred history. “We have to read Augustine as we do Dante,” Wills writes, “alert to rich layer upon layer of Scriptural and theological symbolism.”
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