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