Confessions (2P)

When Saint Augustine wrote his Confessions he was facing, and responding to, a growing spread of asceticism in the Roman world. His task was twofold: to explain to himself the significance of his conversion to Christianity, and to do so in terms that would convince his readers, that this was indeed the one, true faith. In his attempt to achieve these aims, he produced a masterpiece of intellectual biography. Soft 347p