Augustine's Confessions
In this autobiography of Augustine’s confessions, we are brought face-to-face with sin and the conversion of St. Augustine. In this paper, I will try and give an explanation on Augustine’s understanding of sin and also explain Augustine’s understanding of conversion.
Sin was not unusual to Augustine, even as a young boy. In the second book, Augustine reveals that he and some of his friends stole some pears from a neighbor’s tree. They took the pears and threw them to the pigs. Augustine just got a thrill out of doing what was wrong. He said, “My desire was to enjoy not what I sought by stealing but merely the excitement of thieving and the doing of what was wrong”. (II.iv.9)
Later in his life, Augustine resorts to some more “sinful” pleasures. He begins to find sexual activity appealing. He said,”The bubbling impulses of puberty befogged and obscured my heart so that it could not see the difference between love’s serenity and lust’s darkness”. (II.ii.2) He did not understand the......
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