The Confessions of St. Augustine
Bishop of Hippo
Book 5. Augustine the Catechumen
Chapter
1. THAT IT BECOMES THE SOUL TO PRAISE GOD, AND TO CONFESS
UNTO HIM.
Chapter
2. ON THE VANITY OF THOSE WHO WISHED TO ESCAPE THE OMNIPOTENT
GOD.
Chapter
3. HAVING HEARD FAUSTUS, THE MOST LEARNED BISHOP OF THE
MANICHAEANS, HE DISCERNS THAT GOD, THE AUTHOR BOTH OF THINGS ANIMATE AND
INANIMATE, CHIEFLY HAS CARE FOR THE HUMBLE.
Chapter
4. THAT THE KNOWLEDGE OF TERRESTRIAL AND CELESTIAL THINGS
DOES NOT GIVE HAPPINESS, BUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD ONLY.
Chapter
5. OF MANICHAEUS PERTINACIOUSLY TEACHING FALSE DOCTRINES,
AND PROUDLY ARROGATING TO HIMSELF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
Chapter
6. FAUSTUS WAS INDEED AN ELEGANT SPEAKER, BUT KNEW NOTHING
OF THE LIBERAL SCIENCES.
Chapter
7. VII. -CLEARLY SEEING THE FALLACIES OF THE MANICHAEANS,
HE RETIRES FROM THEM, BEING REMARKABLY AIDED BY GOD.
Chapter
8. HE SETS OUT FOR ROME, HIS MOTHER IN VAIN LAMENTING IT.
Chapter
9. BEING ATTACKED BY FEVER, HE IS IN GREAT DANGER.
Chapter
10. WHEN HE HAD LEFT THE MANICHAEANS, HE RETAINED HIS DEPRAVED
OPINIONS CONCERNING SIN AND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAVIOUR.
Chapter
11. HELPIDIUS DISPUTED WELL AGAINST THE MANICHAEANS AS TO
THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
Chapter
12. PROFESSING RHETORIC AT ROME, HE DISCOVERS THE FRAUD
OF HIS SCHOLARS.
Chapter
13. HE IS SENT TO MILAN, THAT HE, ABOUT TO TEACH RHETORIC,
MAY BE KNOWN BY AMBROSE.
Chapter
14. HAVING HEARD THE BISHOP, HE PERCEIVES THE FORCE OF THE
CATHOLIC FAITH, YET DOUBTS, AFTER THE MANNER OF THE MODERN ACADEMICS.
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