{"id":3465,"date":"2016-09-27T10:37:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T08:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augustinianheartblog.wordpress.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2024-03-12T15:20:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T14:20:12","slug":"augustine-conversions-to-confessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/augustinian-heart-blog\/book\/augustine-conversions-to-confessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Augustine: Conversions to Confessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-587\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/agostinjani.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/05-conversions-to-confessions.jpg?resize=331%2C499&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"05  Conversions to confessions\" width=\"331\" height=\"499\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Augustine: Conversions to Confessions\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robin Lane Fox<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saint Augustine is one of the most influential figures in all of Christianity, yet his path to sainthood was by no means assured. Born in AD 354 to a pagan father and a Christian mother, Augustine spent the first thirty years of his life struggling to understand the nature of God and his world. He learned about Christianity as a child but was never baptized, choosing instead to immerse himself in the study of rhetoric, Manicheanism, and then Neoplatonism\u2014all the while indulging in a life of lust and greed.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<em>Augustine<\/em>, the acclaimed historian Robin Lane Fox re-creates Augustine\u2019s early life with unparalleled insight, showing how Augustine\u2019s quest for knowledge and faith finally brought him to Christianity and a life of celibacy. Augustine\u2019s\u00a0<em>Confessions<\/em>, a vivid description of his journey toward conversion and baptism, still serves as a model of spirituality for Christians around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Magisterial and beautifully written,\u00a0<em>Augustine<\/em>\u00a0will be the definitive biography of this colossal figure for decades to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augustine: Conversions to Confessions\u00a0 Robin Lane Fox Saint Augustine is one of the most influential figures in all of Christianity, yet his path to sainthood was by no means assured. Born in AD 354 to a pagan father and a Christian mother, Augustine spent the first thirty years of his life struggling to understand the nature of God and his world. He learned about Christianity as a child but was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"gform-image-choice-sm":false,"gform-image-choice-md":false,"gform-image-choice-lg":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Provin\u010bja Agostinjana","author_link":"https:\/\/agostinjani.org\/mt\/author\/agostinjani\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Augustine: Conversions to Confessions\u00a0 Robin Lane Fox Saint Augustine is one of the most influential figures in all of Christianity, yet his path to sainthood was by no means assured. 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