Introduction to this book
Introduction to Augustine
Introduction to the Confessions
Introduction to reading the Confessions
The "inside address" : "Dear God,"
Adolescence : lust and pears
Young adulthood : Carthage
The conversion to philosophy
The Bible versus Manicheeism
Escape from Carthage, and Monica, to Rome
Saint Ambrose versus Manicheeism
Wisdom from a drunken beggar
What Plato had and what Plato lacked
The problem of evil solved
Christianity versus Platonism
The conversion in the garden
Why Augustine wrote this book
Theological conclusions : what was this God that Augustine found?
