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Augustine's Saint_Augustine_ Confession - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Notable works: "The Confessions
        of St. Augustine" ; " The City of God".
        
        Converts to Catholic Christianity
        and becomes baptized at the
        age of 33
        
        Becomes Ordained Priest in 391
        and bishop of Hippo in 395
        
        Died on 28 August 430
- - - - Became a teacher
        
        Manichee "Hearer"
- - - - Each book starts with the prayer
        in the praise of God
        
        And ends with the admitting of his sins
      - Books start with his birth and
        ends with the death of his mother
- - - - He asks God to 'come into him' and makes conclusion that God is everywhere and in the everything.
        Although God cannot be contained in what he has created, He is a necessary condition for everything to exist, so it means he is in all living creatures.
        
        Later he analyses the nature of life and leaves the possibility that life is a kind of death, and that a true lie starts when person's soul leaves the body.
        
        Augustine several times returns to the question 'who was he before his birth' and unfortunately leaves this Q without proper answer.
        
        After that writer discusses his path to Christianity, through being pagan.
        
        Moreover most o the Book 1 was devoted to the errors of his early teachers, who were ignorant of real purpose of the education.
        
        Book 1 closes with brief list of Augustine's childhood sins, which in his opinion were shocking. However, he admits that he had good sides also, but they were only because of glory of the God.