Confessions of St Augustine in new translation

'A canticle to God, full of psychological insights that might have been written yesterday, the Confessions is the story of a soul, and also the story of God, and how he is constantly at work seeking us'.

Augustine of Hippo's Confessions is perhaps the most important spiritual autobiography of all: it chronicles Augustine's wild and dissonant youth and subsequent conversion to Christianity, as well as providing significant divine and spiritual insight.

Best-selling author Fr Benignus O'Rourke delivers a new, accessible translation of Confessions, his eloquent and contemporary writing shedding new light on the various shades of meaning in Augustine's meditations and stories.

Books 1 - 9, translated here for first time and familiar readers, young and old, can help us reconsider our own strengths and weaknesses, as well as past events and the people present in our lives. In doing so Confessions compels us toward hidden wisdom and truth. And toward God.

'A daringly original contribution to the history of English translations of Confessions' - Martin Laird, author of Into the Slient Land

Fr Benignus O'Rourke OSA is an Augustinian friar. A member of the community at Clare Priory, Suffolk, he is the best-selling author of Finding Your Hidden Treasure (DLT: 2010)

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