On Love Confession Surrender and the Moral Self

The Reading Augustine<i></i>series presents concise personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. <br/><br/>Ian Clausen's <i>On Love Confession Surrender and the Moral Self</i> describes Augustine's central ideas on morality and how he arrived at them. Describing an intellectual journey that will resonate especially with readers at the beginning of their own journey Clausen shows that Augustine's early writing career was an outworking of his own inner turmoil and discovery and that both were to summit triumphantly on his monumental book <i>Confessions</i>(AD 386-401).<br/><br/><i>On Love Confession Surrender and the Moral Self</i><b></b>offers a way of looking at Augustine's early writing career as an on-going developing process: a process whose chief result was to shape a conception of the moral self that has lasted and prospered to the present day.