how Augustine's Confessions has travelled with me for decades, bringing meaning and insight

  • Written by: Dawn LaValle Norman, Research Fellow and ARC DECRA Fellow, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University
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In this series, writers nominate a book that changed their life – or at least their thinking.

Before me as I write lies a book – or should I call it a relic? Augustine’s Confessions in the Oxford paperback edition, translated by Henry Chadwick.

There are layers of different notes in the margins – black ink next...

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