The first great autobiography — faith, sin and transformation in ancient Rome.
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Written in 397 AD, Augustine's Confessions is the book that invented the modern self — and it still hits harder than most novels published this year.
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Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality, the witness of his sin, the witness that Thou resistest…
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