Confessions Of Saint Hood Analysis

The Journey to Saint Hood After reading the book “Confessions of Saint Augustine,” I felt comfortable being able to write my semester paper over this book. This book begins with the life of Saint Augustine. The first nine books (chapters) are mostly made up of the younger days, birth to middle aged, to around the time he converted to Catholicism. For this paper, I went back through and re-read the book to try and interrupt some of the dialogue better than I did the first time. After reading through it again, I did pick up a little bit more than I did the first time I read, which defiantly helped me understand some of this better.
His younger years he recalls as his sinful years. He writes about how he went wild. The sins Augustine seems to talk about a lot are his sexual adventures, and also the time he stole pears with some of his friends. I’m not really sure as to why the fact of him …show more content…
He talks about them more frequently in his teen and young adult years, but as he gets older, it seems to block his path to converting. Every time he becomes close to converting or on the verge of starting to believe and investigate into God more, his sexual desires block his vision. Towards the end of his autobiography, something major happens that will help him block out his sexual desires.
The conversion to Catholicism is actually quite an interesting road for Augustine. To understand how he gets to Catholicism, we need to go back and start at his time at Carthage. In Carthage, Augustine begins to read the bible for the first time, but doesn’t like it due to its simple style. He still wants to find truth so he turns to Manichaeism. From what I understood from the book, it seems like this faith challenges God’s power. One way they do this is by asking, “How is there evil, when God is supremely good?” Also, if God is all powerful, why doesn’t he just simply eliminate