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Confessions (Outler translation)

Confessions (Outler translation)

By: Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written between AD 397 and AD 398. Modern English translations of it are sometimes published under the title The Confessions of St. Augustine in order to distinguish the book from other books with similar titles, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions. (Summary by Wikipedia)Copyright Christianity Genre Art Christianity Literary History & Criticism Spirituality
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