The Confessions of Saint Augustine: An intimate record of a great and pious soul laid bare before God; With Introduction and translation by Edward B. Pusey (Aziloth Books)

Confessions ranks as one of the most widely translated and highly valued books in Christian theology and is considered the first autobiography ever written.

The work was penned around AD 397 when Augustine was in his forties and is an honest narrative of his sinful youth and ultimate conversion to Christianity. It seems Augustine's abilities as a young man were never in any doubt - a brilliant mind combined with a natural talent in rhetoric - but one little interested in Catholic Christian s...