哈佛经典7－The Confessions of Saint Augustine The Imitation of Christ of Thomas A Kempis

　　THE FIRST BOOK
　　Confessions of the greatness and unsearchableness of God,of God's mercies in infancy and boyhood,and human wilfulness;of his own sins of idleness,abuse of his studies,and of God's fifts up to his fifteenth year
　　THE SECOND BOOK
　　Object of these Confession.Further ills of idleness developed in his sixteenth year.Evils of ill society,which betrayed him into theft
　　THE THIRD BOOK
　　His residence at Carthage from his seventeenth to his nineteenth year.Source of his discorders.Love of shows.Advance in studies,and love of wisdom.Distaste for Scripture.Led astray to the Manichans.Refutation of some of their tenets.Grief of his mother monnica at his heresy,and prayers for his conversion.Her vision from God ,and answer through a Bishop
　　THE FOURTH BOOK
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　　THE FIFTH BOOK
　　THE SIXTH BOOK
　　THE SEVENTH BOOK
　　THE EIGTH BOOK
　　THE NINTH BOOK
　　THE TENTH BOOK
　　THE IMITATION OF CHRIST
　　THE FIRST BOOK
　　THE SECOND BOOK
　　THE THIRD BOOK
　　THE FOURTH BOOK

　　Augustine's Confessions is arguably the first,and unequivocally the most influential,religious autobiography in the Christian tradition.He writes about faith with the reckless desertion of a lover.His de*ions of friendship are so beautiful that they'll bring tears to your eyes.The book deals with the history of the City of Man ,founded upon love of self,and of the City of God,founded upon love of God and contempt of self.This work is a vast storehouse of the knowledge of the time,and is a monument not onlyto Augustine's great learnign,but also to storehouse of the time,and is a mounument not only to Augustine's great learning,but also to the keenest metaphysical mind of the age.The Imitation of Christ is a classic of Christian devotional literature that has brought understanding and comfort to millions for centuries.With the exception of the Bible,no Christian writing has had so wide a vogue or so sustained a popularity as this.Its structrue owes largely to the writings of the medieval mystics.Its ideas and phrases are a mosaic from the Bible and the Fathers of the early Church.