The book Confessions by St. Augustine talks about how increasing knowledge through reading leads to a “conversion” in which one begins to remember things and their relevance through memory. Socrates emphasizes the concept of increasing knowledge as a way to grow. Socrates was also the one who wanted to organize a “field day” teaching St. Augustine. St. Augustine uses his life to show us what the search for God should be like. He believed that one should begin one's journey by first reading about God through books like the Bible. Once one believes in God, he will have gone through a conversion where his memory will enable him to remember his readings about God and apply them in his life. We will analyze the relationship between reading, conversion and memory and how they relate to the search for God, taking the life of Saint Augustine as an example to follow. The relationship between reading, conversion and memory is that to achieve a conversion one must read and be able to recall important information through memory. While Saint Augustine speaks with God he says: «You have allowed man to know himself through the knowledge of others and to believe many things about himself on the basis of the authority of women» (p. 7). ) With this statement, Augustine shows us that God believes we should learn from each other and that the primary method of learning from each other is through reading each other's literary works. He also believes that once you read something it can “convert” or change the way you think and see things. He shows this belief in the following observation: "...who here reads about me as I remember and confess to her about myself, let him not despise me - for...... half of the paper .......94) . In conclusion, the life of Saint Augustine is a good example of the concept of reading, conversion and memory, which we can use as a guideline in the pursuit of finding God. As we have seen throughout the book, Saint Augustine went through many processes of reading, conversion and memory. He not only experienced these conversions in an academic way, but also in a religious way. It was after reading these literatures who began to believe in God and went on a religious journey to understand God and Jesus Christ It was during this journey to understand God and Jesus Christ that he used his memory to remember things he read and how they related to what he was trying to understand. that moment. Augustine, Saint Augustine. Confessions. Philadelphia: Westminster P, 1955.
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