Augustine's Confessions Was Written as

question 56

Multiple Choice

Augustine's Confessions was written as

• A)a response to pagan philosophers' attacks on Christianity.
• B)a warning to unbelievers that damnation awaited the unbaptized.
• C)an epic poem to rival the works of the greatest pagan poets.
• D)an account of his own miraculous personal conversion.
• E)a tool to convert the German barbarians.

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