Book One:THE FIRST FIFTEEN YEARS 3
Ⅰ-Ⅴ Prayer to God and Meditation upon God 3
Ⅵ-Ⅶ Augustine's Infancy 5
Ⅷ Learning to Speak 9
Ⅸ-ⅩⅨ Schooldays 10
ⅩⅩ Reasons for Gratitude to God 19
Book Two:THE SIXTEENTH YEAR 23
Ⅰ-Ⅲ Adolescence 23
Ⅳ-Ⅹ Robbing a Pear-tree 26
Book Three:FROM SIXTEEN TO EIGHTEEN 35
Ⅰ-Ⅲ First Days at Carthage 35
Ⅳ-Ⅴ Cicero and Scripture 38
Ⅵ-Ⅹ Joins the Manichees 39
Ⅺ-Ⅻ His Mother's Anxiety 45
Book Four:FROM EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY-SEVEN 51
Ⅰ-Ⅲ Searching for Deliverance 51
Ⅳ-Ⅸ Loss of a Friend 54
Ⅹ-Ⅻ The Transcience of Created Things 58
ⅩⅢ-ⅩⅤ He Writes a Book 61
ⅩⅥ Reads Aristotle on the Categories 64
Book Five:AGED TWENTY-EIGHT 69
Ⅰ-Ⅱ Prayer 69
Ⅲ-Ⅶ Faustus Comes to Carthage 70
Ⅷ-Ⅻ Augustine Goes to Rome 76
ⅩⅢ-ⅩⅣ At Milan 81
Book Six:AGED TWENTY-NINE 87
Ⅰ-Ⅱ Monica Comes to Milan 87
Ⅲ-Ⅴ His Mind Still Searches 89
Ⅵ Disappointments in Worldly Affairs 92
Ⅶ-Ⅹ Alypius and Nebridius 94
Ⅺ-ⅩⅥ The Problem of Continence 99
Book Seven:AGED THIRTY 107
Ⅰ-Ⅱ Realisation That God Is Incorruptible 107
Ⅲ-Ⅴ The Problem of the Origin of Evil 109
Ⅵ Finally Rejects Astrology 112
Ⅶ-ⅩⅦ Beginning of Emancipation from Too Corporeal Thinking 114
ⅩⅧ-ⅩⅪ The Need for Christ 122
Book Eight:AGED THIRTY-ONE 129
Ⅰ-Ⅳ The Conversion of Victorinus 129
Ⅴ-Ⅻ Augustine's Conversion 134
Book Nine:AGED THIRTY-TWO 151
Ⅰ-Ⅶ Reception into the Church 151
Ⅷ-ⅩⅢ The Death of Monica 160
Book Ten:CONCLUDES AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSION 173
Ⅰ-Ⅴ Why He Makes This Confession 173
Ⅵ-Ⅶ What Is God? 176
Ⅷ-ⅩⅩⅤ Analysis of Memory 178
ⅩⅩⅥ-ⅩⅩⅨ Prayer 192
ⅩⅩⅩ-ⅩLⅠ Augustine's Present State 193
ⅩLⅡ-ⅩLⅢ The True Mediator 207
Book Eleven:IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED 211
(Genesis I,i) 211
Ⅰ Why He Writes 211
Ⅱ His Passionate Desire to Meditate upon God's Law 211
Ⅲ-Ⅳ He Would Know the Meaning of Gen.I,l 213
Ⅴ God Created Heaven and Earth in His Word 214
Ⅵ-Ⅶ How Did God Speak His Word? 214
Ⅷ-Ⅸ Meaning of"In the Beginning" 215
Ⅹ-ⅩⅢ Time and the Universe Began Together 217
ⅩⅣ-ⅩⅩⅩ What Is Time? 219
ⅩⅩⅪ Eternal Knowledge 231
Book Twelve:………HEAVEN AND EARTH(Genesis I,1-2) 235
Ⅰ Truth Has Given a Promise 235
Ⅱ Heaven Does Not Mean the Sky but the Heaven of Heaven 235
Ⅲ-Ⅳ Earth Means Sheer Formlessness 235
Ⅶ Summarizes All We Have Learnt Thus Far of Creation 237
Ⅷ The Creation of the Material Heaven and Earth 238
Ⅸ-ⅩⅢ Why the Creation of Heaven and Earth(of Gen.I,l) Is Not in the Enumeration of Days 239
ⅩⅣ-ⅩⅩ He Answers Those Who Deny That This Is What Moses Meant by Gen.I,l 242
ⅩⅣ-ⅩⅥ Whether Moses Meant This or Not,It Is True 242
ⅩⅦ Their Various Statements of What Moses Meant 245
ⅩⅧ-ⅩⅩ It Does Not Greatly Matter,Provided All Are True in Themselves 246
ⅩⅪ Various Interpretations of Gen.I,2 248
ⅩⅫ Discussion of Two of These Interpretations 248
ⅩⅩⅢ-ⅩⅩⅤ Fruitlessness of Wrangling 249
ⅩⅩⅥ Had He Been Moses 252
ⅩⅩⅦ How the Uninstructed Conceive Creation 252
ⅩⅩⅧ-ⅩⅩⅨ Another Interpretation of In the Beginning 253
ⅩⅩⅩ--ⅩⅩⅫ The Right Attitude of Mind and Heart 255
Book Thirteen:THE DAYS OF CREATION(Genesis I,2-31) 259
Ⅰ God Does Not Need Us 259
Ⅱ Why God Created 259
Ⅲ Be Light Made (Verse 3) 260
Ⅳ Moved Over the Waters(Verse 2) 261
Ⅴ The Blessed Trinity in the Account of Creation 261
Ⅵ-Ⅶ Why It Is Not Written That Father and Son Moved Over the Waters 262
Ⅷ Be Light Made 263
Ⅸ Why It Is Not Written That Father and Son Moved over the Waters 263
Ⅹ Be Light Made 264
Ⅺ The Blessed Trinity 264
Ⅻ-ⅩⅣ He Divided the Light from the Darkness (Verse 4) 265
ⅩⅤ Let There Be a Firmament Made...and Let It Divide the Waters from the Waters (Verse 6) 267
ⅩⅥ An Earth without Water 268
ⅩⅦ Let the Waters Be Gathered Together...Let the Earth Bring Forth Fruit (Verse 9) 268
ⅩⅧ-ⅩⅨ Let There Be Light Made in the Firmament of Heaven (Verse 14) 269
ⅩⅩ Let the Waters Bring Forth...(Verse 20) 271
ⅩⅪ Let the Earth Bring Forth the Living Creature(Verse 24) 272
ⅩⅫ Let Us Make Man to Our Image and Likeness(Verse 26) 274
ⅩⅩⅢ Let Him Have Dominion (Verse 28) 275
ⅩⅩⅣ Increase and Multiply(Verse 28) 276
ⅩⅩⅤ-ⅩⅩⅦ...That They May Have to Feed upon(Verse 30) 278
ⅩⅩⅧ-ⅩⅩⅩⅢ God Saw All the Things That He Had Made(Verse 31) 281
ⅩⅩⅩⅣ Figurative Signification of the Order of Creation 284
ⅩⅩⅩⅤ-ⅩⅩⅩⅤⅡ The Seventh Day 285
Biblical Citations 287