St. Augustine Confessions

When you think of confessions, do you think about it being similar to a diary about someone’s life? As you may have guessed, this book was about St. Augustine’s life, but he took it beyond that. This book also happened to be the first autobiography in Western literature. The title “Confessions” comes from St. Augustine’s confessing time, to deal with one’s faults to God and also to praise God. Confession also implies that the narrative will also disclose devoted facts about the author, but also that it will be led by the spirit of remorse and praise of God. In a sense the word confessions has a more complex meaning than what most people would think. First nine Books of the Confessions are mostly about the story of his wrongful life and freeing is in fact a great philosophical and religious matter, since St. Augustine’s story is only one of many examples of the

These last four Books involves a lot of critical and deep understanding of the eternity and time which happened around the same time frame. In his mind, time doesn’t actually exist. He thinks of time as more of an illusion that is generated for ourselves for reasons which are unclear to us. According to God’s point of view, time exists at once meaning that nothing comes ‘before’ or ‘after’ anything else at the current moment. God created the universe not just at a specific time, but instead created it to be constantly and always, in one endless act. By putting the thought of Neoplatonic worldview and Augustine’s own act of ‘confessing’ in a new viewpoint. Since time happens to be directly an illusion of the secondary hierarchy, it also happens to mean that the same things wander and return to God as it does to owe one’s reality to God at every moment. One of the features happens to be told as a story and the other feature is told in philosophical and religious