《大学生英语文库》是一套由上海外语教育出版社奉献给全国大学生及英语爱好者的英语课外读物，本书是该套书中的一本。

本书是奥古斯丁最重要的著作之一，叙述其一生所蒙天主的恩泽，发出对天主的歌颂。本书采用原版，英语纯正，内容丰富，深入浅出，经过详细的注释，有助于读者把握原文的精髓。阅读本书，读者不仅可以增加相关方面的西方知识，更能学到大量各类英语词汇。

Introduction

Foreword

Translator’s Note

Book One THE FIRST FIFTEEN YEARS

Prayer to God and Meditation upon God

Augustine’S Infancy

Learning to Speak

Schooldays

Reasons for Gratitude to God

Book Two THE SIXTEENTH YEAR

Adolescence

Robbing a Pear-tree

Book Three FROM SIXTEEN TO EIGHTEEN

First Days at Carthage

Cicero and Scripture

Joins the Manichees

His Mother’s Anxiety

Book Four FROM EIGIlTEEN TO TWENTY-SEWN

Searching for Deliverance

Loss of a Friend

The Transcience of Created Things

He Writes a Book

Reads Aristotle on the Categories

Book Five AGED TWENTY-EIGHT

Prayer

Faustus Comes to Carthage

Augustine Goes to Rome

At Milan

Book Six AGED TWENTY-NINE

Monica Comes to Milan

His Mind Still Searches

Disappointments in Worldly Affairs

Alypius and Nebridius

The Problem of Continence

Book Seven AGED THIRTY

Realisation That God Is Incorruptible

The Problem of the Origin of Evil

Finally Rejects Astrology

Beginning of Emancipation from Too

Corporeal Thinking

The Need for Christ

Book Eight AGED THIRTY-ONE

The Conversion of Victorinus

Augustine’s Conversion

Book Nine AGED THIRTY-TWO

Reception into the Church

The Death of Monica

Book Ten CONCLUDES AUGUSTINE’S CONFESSION

Why He Makes This Confession

what Is GOd?

Analysis of Memory

Prayer

Augustine’S Present State

The True Mediator

Book Eleven 

IN THE BEGINNING GOD GOD CRESTED(Genesis1.1)

Why He Writes

His Passionate Desire to Meditate upon God’s Law

He Would Know the Meaning of Gen 1.1

God Created Heaven and Earth in His Word

How Did GOd Speak His Word?

Meaning of“In the Beginning”

Time and the Universe Began Together

What Is Time?

Eternal Knowledge

Book Twelve

HEAVEN AND EARTH(Genesis 1-2)

Truth Has Given a Promise

Heaven Does Not Mean the Sky but the Heaven of Heaven

Earth Means Sheer Formlessness

Summarizes All We Have Learnt Thus Far of Creation

The Creation of the Material Heaven and Earth

Why the Creation of Heaven and Earth (of Gen．I.1)Is Not in the Enumeration of Days

He Answers Those Whe Deny That This

Is what Moses Meant by Gen．1，1

 Whether Moses Meant This or Not,It Is True

 Their Various Statements of What Moses Meant

 It Does Not Greatly Matter，Provided All Are True in Themselves

Various Interpretations of Gen．1.2

Discussion of Two of These Interpretations

Fruitlessness of Wrangling

Had He Been Moses

How the Uninstructed Conceive Creation

Another Interpretation of In the Beginning

The Right Attitude of Mind and Heart

Book Thirteen THE DAYS OF CREATION(Genesis．2-31)

God Does Not Need Us

Why God Created

Be Light Made(Verse 3)

Moved 0ver the Waters(Versc 2)

The Blessed Trinity in the Account of Creation

Why It Is Not Written That Father and Son Moved Over the Waters

Be Light Made

Why It Is Not Written That Father and Son Moved over the Waters

Bc Light Made

The Blessed Trinity

He Divided the Light from the Darkness(Verse 4)

Let There Be a Firmament Made and Let It Divide the Waters from the Waters(Verse 6)

An Earth without Water

Let the Waters Be Gathered Together

Let the Earth Bring Forth Fruit(Verse 9)

Let There Be Light Made in the Firmament of Heaven(Verse 14)

Let the Waters Bring Forth(Verse 20)

Let the Earth Bring Forth the Living Creature(Verse 24)

Let Us Make Man to Our Image and Likeness(Verse 26)

Let Him Have Dominion(Verse 28)

Increase and Multiply(Verse 28)

…That hey May Have to Feed upon(Verse 30)

God Saw All the Things That He Had Made(Verse 31)

Figurative Signification of the Order of Creation

The Seventh Day