Posted by Joe, the indian on September 30, 1997 at 21:30:22:
Dear Joshua Terry:
I was thinking about your message and when I was at the Bristish Library in Lima, Peru, suddenly saw a book on Augustine. I took a glance to it and discovered some ideas that would may be helpful for your research:
First of all the book is named "Augustine of Hippo, a biography by Peter Brown. The Editorial is Faber & Faber, London, 1967. Even thouh it has 30 years old I find it interesting; The information you need is probably the part regarding "The Confessions".
there is a phrase I copied :The confessions is very much the book of a man who had come to regard his past as a training for his present career".
"The confessions are a manifesto of the inner world". And at page 169 It appears: "It's more important to realize that the confessions is an autobiography in which the author had imposed, a drastic, and fully concious choice of what is significant".
Well Joshua I hope this information may help you in something
Greetins
Joe, the indian.