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Book One THE FIRST FIFTEEN YEARS 5

Ⅰ-Ⅴ　Prayer to God and Meditation upon God 5

Ⅵ－Ⅶ　Augustine's Infancy 10

Ⅷ Learning to Speak 17

Ⅸ-ⅩⅨ Schooldays 18

ⅩⅩ Reasons for Gratitude to God 34

Book Two THE SIXTEENTH YEAR 41

Ⅰ-Ⅲ Adolescence 41

Ⅳ-Ⅹ Robbing a Pear-tree 47

Book Three FROM SIXTEEN TO EIGHTEEN 61

Ⅰ-Ⅲ First Days at Carthage 61

Ⅳ-Ⅴ Cicero and Scripture 66

Ⅵ-Ⅹ Joins the Manichees 68

Ⅺ-Ⅻ His Mother's Anxiety 79

Book Four FROM EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY-SEVEN 87

Ⅰ-Ⅲ Searching for Deliverance 87

Ⅳ-Ⅸ Loss of a Friend 92

Ⅹ-Ⅻ The Transcience of Created Things 99

ⅩⅢ-ⅩⅤ He Writes a Book 103

ⅩⅥ Reads Aristotle on the Categories 109

Book Five AGED TWENTY-EIGHT 117

Ⅰ-Ⅱ Prayer 117

Ⅲ-Ⅶ Faustus Comes to Carthage 118

Ⅷ-Ⅻ Augustine Goes to Rome 128

ⅩⅢ-ⅩⅣ At Milan 137

Book Six AGED TWENTY-NINE 145

Ⅰ-Ⅱ Monica Comes to Milan 145

Ⅲ-Ⅴ His Mind Still Searches 148

Ⅵ Disappointments in Worldly Affairs 153

Ⅶ-Ⅹ Alypius and Nebridius 156

Ⅺ-ⅩⅥ The Problem of Continence 163

Book Seven AGED THIRTY 177

Ⅰ-Ⅱ Realisation That God Is Incorruptible 177

Ⅲ-Ⅴ The Problem of the Origin of Evil 180

Ⅵ Finally Rejects Astrology 184

Ⅶ-ⅩⅦ　Beginning of Emancipation from Too Corporeal Thinking 188

ⅩⅧ-ⅩⅪ The Need for Christ 199

Book Eight AGED THIRTY-ONE 211

Ⅰ-Ⅳ The Conversion of Victorinus 211

Ⅴ-Ⅻ Augustine's Conversion 220

Book Nine AGED THIRTY-TWO 243

Ⅰ-Ⅶ Reception into the Church 243

Ⅷ-ⅩⅢ The Death of Monica 257

Book Ten CONCLUDES AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSION 277

Ⅰ-Ⅴ Why He Makes This Confession 277

Ⅵ-Ⅶ What Is God? 282

Ⅷ-ⅩⅩⅤ Analysis of Memory 285

ⅩⅩⅥ-ⅩⅩⅨ Prayer 304

ⅩⅩⅩ-ⅩLⅠ Augustine's Present State 306

ⅩLⅡ-ⅩLⅢ The True Mediator 326

Book Eleven　IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED…(Genesis I.1) 335

Ⅰ Why He Writes 335

Ⅱ His Passionate Desire to Meditate upon God's Law 335

Ⅲ-Ⅳ He Would Know the Meaning of Gen.I.1 338

Ⅴ God Created Heaven and Earth in His Word 339

Ⅵ-Ⅶ How Did God Speak His Word? 340

Ⅷ-Ⅸ Meaning of"In the Beginning" 342

Ⅹ-ⅩⅢ Time and the Universe Began Together 343

ⅩⅣ-ⅩⅩⅩ What Is Time? 346

ⅩⅩⅪ Eternal Knowledge 364

Book Twelve HEAVEN AND EARTH(Genesis I,1-2) 371

Ⅰ Truth Has Given a Promise 371

Ⅱ Heaven Does Not Mean the Sky but the Heaven of Heaven 371

Ⅲ-Ⅵ Earth Means Sheer Formlessness 372

Ⅶ Summarizes All We Have Learnt Thus Far of Creation 374

Ⅷ The Creation of the Material Heaven and Earth 375

Ⅸ-ⅩⅢ Why the Creation of Heaven and Earth(of Gen.I,1)Is Not in the Enumeration of Days 376

ⅩⅣ-ⅩⅩ He Answers Those Who Deny That This Is What Moses Meant by Gen.I,1 381

ⅩⅣ-ⅩⅥ Whether Moses Meant This or Not,It Is True 381

ⅩⅦ Their Various Statements of What Moses Meant 386

ⅩⅧ-ⅩⅩ It Does Not Greatly Matter,Provided All Are True in Themselves 387

ⅩⅪ Various Interpretations of Gen.I,2 390

ⅩⅫ Discussion of Two of These Interpretations 391

ⅩⅩⅢ-ⅩⅩⅤ Fruitlessness of Wrangling 392

ⅩⅩⅥ Had He Been Moses 396

ⅩⅩⅦ How the Uninstructed Conceive Creation 397

ⅩⅩⅧ-ⅩⅩⅨ Another Interpretation of In the Beginning 398

ⅩⅩⅩ-ⅩⅩⅫ The Right Attitude of Mind and Heart 400

Book Thirteen THE DAYS OF CREATION(Genesis I,2-31) 407

Ⅰ God Does Not Need Us 407

Ⅱ Why God Created 407

Ⅲ Be Light Made(Verse 3) 409

Ⅳ Moved Over the Waters(Verse 2) 409

Ⅴ The Blessed Trinity in the Account of Creation 410

Ⅵ-Ⅶ Why It Is Not Written That Father and Son Moved Over the Waters 411

Ⅷ Be Light Made 412

Ⅸ Why It Is Not Written That Father and Son Moved over the Waters 413

Ⅹ Be Light Made 414

Ⅺ The Blessed Trinity 415

Ⅻ-ⅩⅣ He Divided the Light from the Darkness(Verse 4) 416

ⅩⅤ Let There Be a Firmament Made...and Let It Divide the Waters from the Waters(Verse 6) 419

ⅩⅥ An Earth without Water 421

ⅩⅦ Let the Waters Be Gathered Together...Let the Earth Bring Forth Fruit(Verse 9) 422

ⅩⅧ-ⅩⅨ Let There Be Light Made in the Firmament of Heaven(Verse 14) 423

ⅩⅩ Let the Waters Bring Forth...(Verse 20) 428

ⅩⅪ Let the Earth Bring Forth the Living Creature(Verse 24) 429

ⅩⅫ Let Us Make Man to Our Image and Likeness(Verse 26) 432

ⅩⅩⅢ Let Him Have Dominion(Verse 28) 433

ⅩⅩⅣ Increase and Multiply(Verse 28) 436

ⅩⅩⅤ-ⅩⅩⅦ ...That They May Have to Feed upon(Verse 30) 439

ⅩⅩⅧ-ⅩⅩⅩⅢ God Saw All the Things That He Had Made(Verse 31) 443

ⅩⅩⅩⅣ Figurative Signification of the Order of Creation 448

ⅩⅩⅩⅤ-ⅩⅩⅩⅦ The Seventh Day 449