Includes bibliographical references (pages 921-939) and index.
Infancy and childhood -- Sixteenth year -- Sojourn in Carthage -- Manichee and teacher in Thagaste -- Augustine abandons Manicheism -- Theoretical indecisiveness, moral groping -- Encounter with neoplatonism : intellectual conversion -- Witnesses, struggle, moral conversion -- Baptism : death of Monica -- Present state of soul -- Reflections on scripture : creation, eternity, time -- Understanding Genesis 1:1-2 -- Allegorical interpretation of Genesis 1:2-31 -- The structure of the church