Confession and Self-Examination: Augustine: The Confessions as Spiritual Practice
Teaching on Confession and Self-Examination from Augustine of Hippo: Augustine: The Confessions as Spiritual Practice
This is a spiritual discipline on confession and self-knowledge, drawing on Psalm 139:23-24, Psalm 32:5 and 1 John 1:9.
Augustine's "Confessions" (written c. 397) is the first great autobiography in Western literature and remains the supreme example of confession as spiritual discipline. Augustine wrote: "My confessions praise You, my God. Let me confess then what I know of myself, and let me confess too what I do not know of myself." He understood that self-knowledge is always partial and that we need God to reveal what we cannot see on our own.…
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