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| Introduction | |
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| Chronological Outline of Augustline's Life for the Period Covered by the Confessions | |
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| Revisions | |
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| The Confessions | |
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| Infancy and Boyhood | |
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| Opening prayer and meditation | |
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| Infancy | |
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| Learning to speak | |
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| Augustine goes to school | |
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| His baptism is deferred | |
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| Latin and Greek studies | |
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| Childish sins | |
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| Thanksgiving | |
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| Adolescence | |
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| Sexual awakening | |
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| A year at home | |
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| Adolescent lust | |
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| He robs a pear tree | |
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| Question of motives | |
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| The prodigal's wanderings begin | |
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| Student Years at Carthage | |
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| Student life: sex and shows | |
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| The "wreckers" | |
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| The quest for wisdom: Cicero's Hortensius | |
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| Distaste for scripture | |
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| He joins the Manichees | |
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| Monica, grieved, is consoled by a vision | |
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| "A son of tears" | |
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| Augustine the Manichee | |
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| Augustine sells rhetorical skills | |
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| He begins to cohabit with an unnamed girl | |
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| He investigates astrology | |
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| Death of a friend at Thagaste | |
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| Consolation in other friends at Carthage | |
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| Transience of created things | |
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| What is beauty? He writes a book | |
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| He reads Aristotle's Categories | |
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| Faustus at Carthage, Augustine to Rome and Milan | |
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| Augustine hopes to question Faustus | |
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| Valid observations of the natural world by "philosophers" | |
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| Manichlean assertions about natural phenomena are astray | |
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| Augustine is disappointed in Faustus | |
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| Indiscipline among his students prompts move to Rome | |
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| Monica's opposition; Augustine departs by stealth | |
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| Illness in Rome; Manichean contacts | |
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| Appeal of Academic skepticism | |
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| Augustine teaches in Rome | |
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| He wins a teaching post in Milan | |
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| He arrives in Milan and meets Ambrose | |
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| Milan, 385: Progress, Friends, Perplexities | |
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| Monica comes to Milan | |
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| Bishop Ambrose | |
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| Augustine finds some enlightenment | |
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| Hollowness of his secular ambitions; the drunken beggar | |
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| Alypius | |
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| Nebridius | |
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| Perplexities and plans: philosophy and the problem of continence | |
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| Projected marriage | |
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| Dream of an ideal community | |
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| Dismissal of Augustine's common-law wife; his grief | |
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| Neo-Platonism Frees Augustine's Mind | |
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| Materialistic notions of God insufficient | |
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| The problem of evil | |
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| The finally rejects astrology | |
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| Still searching | |
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| He reads "the books of the Platonists" | |
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| The attempts Platonic ecstasy, but is "beaten back" | |
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| New light on the problem of evil | |
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| Fresh attempt at mounting to God; he attains That Which Is | |
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| He realizes the need for Christ the Mediator | |
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| Christ the Way | |
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| Augustine discovers Saint Paul | |
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| Conversion | |
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| Conversation with Simplicianus | |
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| Story of Victorinus' conversion | |
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| Augustine longs to imitate him, but is hindered by lustful habit | |
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| Conversation with Ponticianus | |
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| Story of conversion of two court officials at Trier | |
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| Struggle in the garden | |
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| "Pick it up and read" | |
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| Conversion of Augustine and Alypius Monica's joy | |
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| Death and Rebirth | |
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| Augustine decides to renounce his career | |
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| To Cassiciacum with his mother, son, and friends | |
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| He lives with the psalms | |
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| They return to Milan and are baptized | |
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| Used of hymns in liturgy | |
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| Discovery of the bodies of two saints | |
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| Monica's story | |
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| Ostia | |
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| Monica's death | |
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| Augustine's grief | |
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| Peace | |
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| Memory | |
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| Motives for confession | |
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| Looking for God in creatures | |
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| Looking the God in himself: the fields of memory | |
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| Universal desire for happiness | |
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| In memory he knows God | |
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| "Give what you command" | |
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| Concupiscence of the flesh: sense of touch | |
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| Taste | |
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| Smell | |
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| Hearing | |
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| Sight | |
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| Concupiscence of the eyes | |
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| The third great temptation: pride | |
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| Summary of all his discoveries | |
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| The Mediator, priest and victim | |
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| Time and Eternity | |
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| Augustine prays for understanding of the scriptures | |
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| In the Beginning God made heaven and Earth | |
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| God creates in his Word | |
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| This Word is eternal | |
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| The eternal Word is the Beginning | |
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| "What was God doing before that?" Meaningless question | |
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| Time, a creature of God-what is it? | |
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| Movements of the heavenly bodies are not time itself, but only markers of it | |
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| Perhaps time is tension of our consciousness | |
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| Out time and God's eternity | |
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| Heaven and Earth | |
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| Heaven's heaven is the spiritual creation | |
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| Formless matter, the abyss | |
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| There was no time there | |
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| Summary of foregoing remarks on spiritual and material creation | |
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| Some people disagree with me about the spiritual and material creation | |
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| Augustine's response to those who disagree | |
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| The author's intention must be sought, in charity | |
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| "If I had been Moses" | |
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| How fruitful are these verses of Genesis! | |
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| Conclusion: the one Truth, many human approaches | |
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| The Days of Creation, Prophecy of the Church | |
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| Why did God create? | |
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| Not for any deserving on the creature's side | |
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| God's Spirit, Third Person of the Trinity | |
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| Allegorical interpretation of Gn 1. Day One: Light | |
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| Day Two: The vault of scripture | |
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| Day Three: Bitter sea, dry land, fruitfulness | |
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| Day Four: Lamps of wisdom and knowledge | |
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| Day Five: Sea creatures represent signs and sacraments | |
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| Day Six: Animals, the living soul | |
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| Humanity in God's image and likeness | |
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| Increase and multiply | |
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| God assigns them their food | |
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| God saw that it was exceedingly good (against the Manichees) | |
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| Summary of literal exegesis; man and woman | |
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| Summary of allegorical exegesis | |
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| Conclusion: rest on the seventh day | |
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| Index of Scripture | |
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| Index | |
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| A Bibliographic Guide | |