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==Tujuan==
''Confessiones'' tidak hanya ditujukan untuk mendorong pertobatan, tetapi juga memberikan panduan untuk bagaimana bertobat. Agustinus mengekstrapolasi dari pengalaman pribadinya agar sesuai dengan perjalanan orang lain. Agustinus menyadari bahwa Allah telah selalu melindungi dan membimbingnya. Hal ini direfleksikan dalam struktur dari karya ini. Agustinus memulai setiap jilid dalam ''Confessiones'' dengan sebuah doa kepada Allah.
''Confessions'' was not only meant to encourage conversion, but it offered guidelines for how to convert. Augustine extrapolates from his own experiences to fit others' journeys. Augustine recognizes that God has always protected and guided him. This is reflected in the structure of the work. Augustine begins each book within ''Confessions'' with a prayer to God. For example, both books VIII and IX begin with "you have broken the chains that bound me; I will sacrifice in your honor".<ref>{{cite book | author = Augustine of Hippo |title= Confessions |date=1961 |publisher= Penguin Books |location= Harmondsworth Middlesex, England | volume = Book IX | chapter = 1}}</ref> Because Augustine begins each book with a prayer, Albert C. Outler, a professor of theology at Southern Methodist University, argues that ''Confessions'' is a "pilgrimage of grace… [a] retrac[ing] [of] the crucial turnings of the way by which [Augustine] had come. And since he was sure that it was God's grace that had been his prime mover in that way, it was a spontaneous expression of his heart that cast his self-recollection into the form of a sustained prayer to God."{{Sfn|Outler|1955|p = 5}} Not only does ''Confessions'' glorify God but it also suggests God’s help in Augustine's path to redemption.
 
 
''Confessions'' was not only meant to encourage conversion, but it offered guidelines for how to convert. Augustine extrapolates from his own experiences to fit others' journeys. Augustine recognizes that God has always protected and guided him. This is reflected in the structure of the work. Augustine begins each book within ''Confessions'' with a prayer to God. For example, both books VIII and IX begin with "you have broken the chains that bound me; I will sacrifice in your honor".<ref>{{cite book | author = Augustine of Hippo |title= Confessions |date=1961 |publisher= Penguin Books |location= Harmondsworth Middlesex, England | volume = Book IX | chapter = 1}}</ref> Because Augustine begins each book with a prayer, Albert C. Outler, a professor of theology at Southern Methodist University, argues that ''Confessions'' is a "pilgrimage of grace… [a] retrac[ing] [of] the crucial turnings of the way by which [Augustine] had come. And since he was sure that it was God's grace that had been his prime mover in that way, it was a spontaneous expression of his heart that cast his self-recollection into the form of a sustained prayer to God."{{Sfn|Outler|1955|p = 5}} Not only does ''Confessions'' glorify God but it also suggests God’s help in Augustine's path to redemption.
 
Written after the legalization of Christianity, ''Confessions'' dated from an era where martyrdom was no longer a threat to most Christians as was the case two centuries earlier. Instead, a Christian's struggles were usually internal. Augustine clearly presents his struggle with worldly desires such as lust. Augustine's conversion was quickly followed by his ordination as a priest in 391 AD and then appointment as bishop in 395 AD. Such rapid ascension certainly raised criticism of Augustine. ''Confessions'' was written between 397–398 AD, suggesting self-justification as a possible motivation for the work. With the words "I wish to act in truth, making my confession both in my heart before you and in this book before the many who will read it" in Book X Chapter 1,{{Sfn | Augustine of Hippo| 1961| loc =Book X, Chapter 1}} Augustine both confesses his sins and glorifies God through humility in His grace, the two meanings that define "confessions",{{Sfn | Outler | 1955 | page = 7}} in order to reconcile his imperfections not only to his critics but also to God.