"The Confessions"

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Explores the Doctor of the Catholic Church's moving autobiography, which consists of 13 books and was written over about 50 years. The work discusses his life of wantonness and error, which led to his discovery of God and eventual conversion into the Catholic faith. The paper consists of a biography of St. Augustine, as well as an examination of the impact of his writings on subsequent Catholic followers.

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"Teachings and preaching of that time were unlike the cannon of the Scripture in that teachers and preachers wrote while making progress and learned something new each day. They could take criticisms and encouraged these. It was with the same openness of mind that Augustine confronted the issues of the age. One issue was marriage, which radical Christians ignored at around the end of the fourth century, making celibate monks and virgins heroes and heroines (Brown). Married Christians did not invite much attention then as did the unmarried celibates, but Augustine distanced himself from popular beliefs and asserted that marriage had as much importance as celibacy. He believed that there was no aspect of Catholic life that was beyond the range of God's mercy, and nothing that His grace could not reach."

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