<p>"<em>The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine’s Confessions</em> is a remarkably lucid and intelligent introduction to one of the most important texts in the history of the Christian West. Through sensitive analysis of the language and structure of the <i>Confessions</i>, Professor Conybeare illuminates the key elements of Augustine’s thought, and brings out the depth and originality of this brilliant work."<br /><em>Sara Lipton, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA</em></p><p>"As a guide to reading the Confessions, this book is a beautiful introduction to a classic of Western culture. Conybeare captures the spirit of Augustine's quest for God, confessing what is known and unknown, and invites readers in a delightful way to read much more than Augustine's words."<br /><em>Allan Fitzgerald, Villanova University, USA</em></p><p>"When Augustine surrenders himself in confession before God and his audience, he could not have wished for a more sympathetic human hearer than Conybeare. She is no disinterested listener, but engages with the conversation in a way that, in turn, enables her own audience to participate in it. The experience is precisely the transformative one that Augustine intended his <i>Confessions </i>to be." <br /><em>Carol Harrison, Oxford University, UK</em></p><p>"Catherine Conybeare offers an excellent guide to Augustine's autobiographical Confessions. She is not a theologian or church historian. Rather, she is a scholar of classical literature and there­fore lends a unique angle to the study of Confessions."<br /><em>Jack Kilcrease, Aquinas College</em></p>