Confessions For the Rest of Us

The writing of the novel is for entertainment, the textbooks are for education, the Bible is for recommendation. Every writing has a purpose that is not intentional or intentional. Otherwise, writing has no meaning. Autobiography is often used to inform readers about the lives of specific people, but in confession, Hippo Augustine shows a higher goal. Among other goals, he tried to indirectly guide other people to God and the truth using the story of their own life.

Augustine reflects the purpose of confession. This may be a good point for Augustine to discuss the various meanings of the confession that he uses throughout his work. That word itself comes from the Latin conviction, which means admitting, arguing or praising. Based on this etymology, John O'Meara (The Young Augustine, 2-3) insists that in the confession Augustine used three different but interrelated meanings: confession as peccati confessio laudis and recognition of faith (confessio fidei)

Augustine named his deep philosophical and theological autobiography "confession" and proposed two aspects of the form which the work would take. In Augustine era, he acknowledged that I must tell God about my mistakes and praise God (please tell me the love to God for man). Augustine notes not only for the practical inspiration of the reader but also for his promotion from sin to faith because he believes that the story itself is wonderful about God. Everything has basic love. Therefore, in the "confession record", the natural form of the story of Augustine's redemption is that God must be thankful for this redemption, so that the content of its natural form is equivalent to becoming a direct solution to God is. (That is, speaking directly to God is a very primitive form that Augustine was using at the time)

In the confession of St. Augustine, Augustine told himself himself in a clear and enthusiastic way about thinking and persistence of the mind from the beginning of time. Repentance tells stories in the form of long-term conversion with God. Through this transition to Catholic Christianity, Augustine met many aspects of love. These forms of love help him establish the ultimate relationship with God. At the end of his repentance, his restless heart finally found peace, and resting in the sight of God.