Soliloquies: Augustine’s Inner Dialogue (Works of Saint Augustine)

by Augustine of Hippo

Publisher:

New City Press

, 2000

Overview

Soliloquies is a work from Augustine’s early life, shortly after his conversion, in which are visible all the seeds contained in his future writings. Here we see Augustine as a philosopher, a thinker, and a budding theologian. We also see him as a person preparing for baptism, reaching for the God of truth for whom he had searched passionately. It is his personal prayer to his God of love and mercy.

Key Features

• Reveals Augustine’s introspective conversation with his own soul and reason
• Shows Augustine’s desire to understand himself and God through a meditative and philosophical method
• Offers readers a glimpse into how self-examination and dialogue can lead toward spiritual clarity and intellectual conviction

Contents

Book I

• Purpose
• Prayer
• I want to know God and the soul
• How much I want to know God
• What does it mean to know God?
• Differences
• The purified mind and contemplation
• Vision
• Illumination
• Are we healthy?
• Various pleasures
• Justice
• Search for ourselves and for God
• Lover of wisdom
• Cast off the things of the senses
• To know truth

Book II

• Living, existing, understanding
• Truth cannot perish
• The soul lives forever
• The cosmic soul
• Appearances
• Resemblance and the senses
• Similarity and dissimilarity; Soliloquies
• Turmoils with Reason
• A definition of false
• Contradictory elements
• The discipline of grammar
• The subject and what is in the subject
• The immortality of the soul
• Various quandaries
• True and false natures
• Truth is neither body nor emptiness
• Shapes
• Immortal truth to the immortality of the soul
• Imagination and truth

Product Details

• Title: Soliloquies: Augustine's Inner Dialogue
• Author: Augustine of Hippo
• Publisher: New City Press
• Print Publication Date: 2000
• Pages: 108
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBN: 978156548142
• Resource ID: LLS:SLLQSGSTNSNNDLG
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-07-02T14:33:14Z

About Augustine of Hippo

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) is often simply referred to as St. Augustine or Augustine Bishop of Hippo (the ancient name of the modern city of Annaba in Algeria). He is the preeminent Doctor of the Church according to Roman Catholicism, and is considered by Evangelical Protestants to be in the tradition of the Apostle Paul as the theological fountainhead of the Reformation teaching on salvation and grace.