The Confessions of St. Augustine

"God is our home but many of us have strayed from our native land.
The venerable authors of these Spiritual Classics are expert guides—
may we follow their directions home." —Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Writing in the last years of the fourth century a.d., Saint Augustine of Hippo created what is at once the first true autobiography in Western literature and among the most sophisticated yet accessible theological arguments in the history of Christianity. With extraordinary candor and psychologica...