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In this short guidebook, popular professor, author, and literary expert Leland Ryken takes you through an example of the greatest literature in history while answering your questions along the way. This volume guides readers through Augustine’s classic spiritual autobiography, the Confessions, exploring the book’s historical context, key themes, and overarching message.

The opening lines of Book 1 of the Confessions contain another premonition that reappears strongly in Book 5.* It is the idea that God resists the proud. This is a keynote in Augustine’s handling of his encounter with the “big-name” Manichaean bishop Faustus (chapters 6–7). The account is a satiric portrait. A mocking tone pervades both the analysis of the deficiencies of Manichaeism and the exposure of the ignorance of Faustus. A typical debunking statement is, “Who asked this obscure fellow Mani
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