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# Ketika Agustinus berusia 29 tahun, ia mulai kehilangan keyakinan dalam pengajaran Manikhean, sebuah proses uang dimulai ketika uskup Manikhean Faustus mengunjungi Kartago. Agustinus tidak terkesan dengan substansi dari Manikheisme, tetapi ia belum menemukan ajaran lain untuk menggantikannya. Ia merasa pasrah dengan dongeng-dongeng ini karena ia belum membentuk inti rohani untuk membuktikan kepalsuan mereka. Ia pindah untuk mengajar di Roma di mana sistem pendidikannya lebih disiplin. Ia tidak menetap lama di Roma karena ia diminta untuk mengajar di Milan, tempat ia bertemu dengan uskup [[Ambrosius]]. Ia memghargai gaya dan sikap Ambrosius, dan Ambrosius memaparkannnya kepada perspektif akan Allah yang lebih spiritual dan figuratif, yang membawanya menjadi seorang [[katekumen]] dalam Gereja.
# Khotbah-khotbah Ambrosius membawa Agustinus lebih dekat dengan Kekristenan, yang mulai ia lebih sukai ketimbang pilihan filosofis lainnya. Dalam bagian ini, permasalahan pribadinya, termasuk ambisinya, berlanjut, hingga di titik di mana ia membandingkan seorang pengemis, yang kemabukannya adalah "kebahagiaan sementara"nya, dengan kegagalannya hingga saat itu untuk menemukan kebahagiaan. {{Sfn|Bourke|1966|p=140}} Agustinus menyoroti kontribusi dari teman-temannya Alypius dan Nebridius dalam penemuannya akan kebenaran agamawi. Monika pulang pada akhir dari jilid ini dan mengatur pernikahan untuk Agustinus, yang berpisah dari gundiknya, menemukan selingkuhan baru, dan menganggap dirinya sebagai "budak hawa nafsu."{{Sfn|Bourke|1966|p=158}}
# Dalam misinya untuk menemukan kebenaran di balik kebaikan dan kejahatan, Agustinus diperhadapkan dengan pandangan [[Neoplatonis]] tentang Allah. HeNamun, findsia fault with this thought, however,mempersalahkan becausepandangan heini thinkskarena thatia theyberpikir understandbahwa themereka naturedapat ofmengerti Godnatur withoutAllah acceptingtanpa Christmenerima asKristus asebagai mediatorpengantara betweenantara humansmanusia anddengan GodAllah. He reinforces his opinion of the Neoplatonists through the likeness of a mountain top: "It is one thing to see, from a wooded mountain top, the land of peace, and not to find the way to it… it is quite another thing to keep to the way which leads there, which is made safe by the care of the heavenly Commander, where they who have deserted the heavenly army may not commit their robberies, for they avoid it as a punishment."{{Sfn|Bourke|1966|p=193–94}} From this point, he picks up the works of the apostle Paul which "seized [him] with wonder."{{Sfn|Bourke|1966|p=194}}
# He further describes his inner turmoil on whether to convert to Christianity. Two of his friends, [[Simplicianus]] and Ponticianus, tell Augustine stories about the conversions of [[Marius Victorinus]] and [[Anthony the Great|Saint Anthony]]. While reflecting in a garden, Augustine hears a child's voice chanting "take up and read."<ref>[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/augustine/confess.ix.xii.html Confessions, Chapter XII]</ref> Augustine picks up a book of St. Paul's writings (codex apostoli, 8.12.29) and reads the passage it opens to, Romans 13:13–14: "Not in revelry and drunkenness, not in debauchery and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy; but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and as for the flesh, take no thought for its lusts."{{Sfn|Bourke|1966|p=225}} This action confirms his conversion to Catholicism. His friend Alypius follows his example.
# In preparation for his baptism, Augustine concludes his teaching of rhetoric. Ambrose baptizes Augustine along with Adeodatus and Alypius. Augustine then recounts how the church at Milan, with his mother in a leading role, defends Ambrose against the persecution of [[Justina (empress)|Justina]]. Upon his return with his mother to Africa, they share in a religious vision in Ostia. Soon after, [[Saint Monica]] dies, followed soon after by his friends Nebridius and Verecundus. By the end of this book, Augustine remembers these deaths through the prayer of his newly adopted faith: "May they remember with holy feeling my parents in this transitory light, and my brethren under Thee, O Father, in our Catholic Mother [the Church], and my fellow citizens in the eternal Jerusalem, for which the pilgrimage of Thy people sighs from the start until the return. In this way, her last request of me will be more abundantly granted her in the prayers of many through these my confessions than through my own prayers."{{Sfn|Bourke|1966|p=262}}