/lit/ - Literature

>>19506463
That's exactly what its about. Augustine was scandalous before his conversion--- even had an unplanned pregnancy out of wedlock. If that's still a scandal today, you can imagine how people viewed him then.

The confessions are deeply moving and an emotional shock. A beautiful portrait of the repentant soul. However I will tell you that after a lot of searching, nothing can ever create a Christian except faith. There is no amount of rationalizing and reading you can do to "make" you into a Christian. This is the hard truth I learned after being raised Catholic but leaving as a youth. Books like these help and can inform the soul, but your own earthmoving faith that God is who he says he is will be what saves you.