Youve heard his namenow read his classic spiritual autobiography. Here is St. Augustines Confessions, an important and powerful book abridged and updated for todays reader. Written some sixteen hundred years ago, this Christian classic still speaks to readers, addressing concerns that trouble the human heart today just as they did in the fourth and fifth centuries. Confessions gives an account of Gods grace in Augustines lifeas well as his personal regret over the wickedness of his pre-Christian days. Its a powerful introduction to a giant of the faith, and an encouraging story of Gods power to change people.