1. Lecture 6 Book IX
Ann T. Orlando

2. Book IX
Historical context
Reading the Text
Influence

3. Historical Background
Cassiciacum
Ostia
Family in antiquity
Baptism
Relics and Pilgrimages
Spiritual progress

4. Confessions Structure
Augustine's Reflection on His Past
Book I: From God; birth and relationship of infant with mother
Book II: Bondage of Flesh
Book III: Slavery of eyes and mind; problem of evil
Book IV Ambition of World
Book V Encounter with Faustus, Manichaeism, philosophy; moving from Carthage to Rome
Book VI: Recognition of emptiness of world’s ambition
Book VII: Freedom of mind; resolution of problem of evil
Book VIII: Liberation from bondage of flesh
Book IX: Relation to Monica, her death, return to God
Augustine’s Present
Book X: Memory
Book XI: Time
Book XII: Interpreting Scripture
Book XIII: Trinity and Church

5. Book IX Outline Moving beyond worldly ambition IX.1.1 – IX.2.4
On retreat in Cassiciacum IX.3.5 – IX.4.12
Baptism IX.5.13 – IX.7.16
Monica’s Life IX.8.17 – IX.9.22
Experiencing God IX – IX.10.26
Monica’s death IX – IX.13.36
Prayer for Monica and Patrick IX.13.37

6. Influence
Mystical ascent