The Confessions of St. Augustine

As we read the chronicle of the writer’s experiences at school, at the university, as professor of rhetoric at Charthage and Rome and Milan, or again the more diversified chronicle of his inner life in its search after truth, we are conscious of being under the spell not only of a master of emotional language, but of one who is sensitive tothe finest shades of reality. One thinks of The Imitation of Christ or The Pilgrim’s Progress. What we think now on sin and grace was largely determined by the Pelagian controversy, and the Pelagian controversy was a controversy between the religious experiences of two men… Augustine and Pelagius, the former of which is recorded for us in this volume.