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Dig into the rich tradition of Catholic literature with these significant and influential books recommended by Bishop Barron. These titles have transformed cultures and have proven indispensable to those seeking to encounter God, as revealed in Jesus Christ through His Church.
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Contents
FOREWORD VII
BY BISHOP BARRON
I–V Prayer to God and Meditation upon God
VI–VII Augustine’s Infancy
VIII Learning to Speak
IX–XIX Schooldays
XX Reasons for Gratitude to God
BOOK TWO: THE SIXTEENTH YEAR
I–III Adolescence
IV–X Robbing a Pear-Tree
BOOK THREE: FROM SIXTEEN TO EIGHTEEN
I–III First Days at Carthage
IV–V Cicero and Scripture
VI–X Joins the Manichees
XI–XII His Mother’s Anxiety
IV–V Cicero and Scripture
VI–X Joins the Manichees
XI–XII His Mother’s Anxiety
BOOK FOUR: FROM EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY-SEVEN
I–III Searching for Deliverance
IV–IX Loss of a Friend
X–XII The Transience of Created Things
III–XV He Writes a Book
XVI Reads Aristotle on the Categories
BOOK FIVE: AGED TWENTY-EIGHT
I–II Prayer
III–VII Faustus Comes to Carthage
VIII–XII Augustine Goes to Rome
XIII–XIV At Milan
BOOK SIX: AGED TWENTY-NINE
I–II Monica Comes to Milan
II–V His Mind Still Searches
VI Disappointments in Worldly Affairs
II–X Alypius and Nebridius
XI–XVI The Problem of Continence
BOOK SEVEN: AGED THIRTY
I–II Realisation That God Is Incorruptible
III–V The Problem of the Origin of Evil 143 VI Finally Rejects Astrology
VII–XVII Beginning of Emancipation from Materialist Thinking
XVIII–XXI The Need for Christ
BOOK EIGHT: AGED THIRTY-ONE
I–IV The Conversion of Victorinus 170 V–XII Augustine’s Conversion
BOOK NINE: AGED THIRTY-TWO
I–VII Reception into the Church 198 VIII–XIII The Death of Monica
BOOK TEN: AUGUSTINE’S CONFESSION OF HIS PRESENT
I–V Why He Makes This Confession 230 VI–VII What Is God?
VIII–XXV Analysis of Memory 238 XXVI–XXIX Prayer
XXX–XLI Augustine’s Present State 260 XLII–XLIII The True Mediator
BOOK ELEVEN: IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED (GENESIS 1:1).
I Why He Writes 283 II His Passionate Desire To Meditate upon God’s Law
III–IV He Would Know the Meaning of Gen. 1:1 287 V God Created Heaven and Earth in His Word
VI–VII How Did God Speak His Word?
VIII–IX Meaning of “In the Beginning” (Gen. 1:1)
X–XIII Time and the Universe Began Together
XIV–XXX What Is Time?
XXXI Eternal Knowledge
BOOK TWELVE: HEAVEN AND EARTH (GENESIS 1:1–2)
I Truth Has Given a Promise 316 II-XIII Interpretation of Heaven and Earth
XIV–XX He Answers Those Who Deny That This Is What Moses Meant by Gen. 1:1
XXI–XXVII Various Interpretations of Gen.1:2
XXVIII–XXIX Another Interpretation of “In the Beginning”
XXX–XXXII The Right Attitude of Mind and Heart
XIV–XX He Answers Those Who Deny That This Is What Moses Meant by Gen. 1:1
XXI–XXVII Various Interpretations of Gen.1:2
XXVIII–XXIX Another Interpretation of “In the Beginning”
XXX–XXXII The Right Attitude of Mind and Heart
BOOK THIRTEEN: THE DAYS OF CREATION (GENESIS 1:2–31)
I God Does Not Need Us
II Why God Created
III-XI Literal Interpretation of Gen. 1:2–3
XII-XXXII Allegorical Interpretation of Gen. 1:1–31
XXXIII–XXXIV Summary of Exegesis, Literal and Allegorical
XXXV–XXXVII Conclusion: The Seventh Day