Prompt: How does Augustine understand the relationship between personal experience and religious authority in the Confessions?
The papers will be assessed for clarity, logic, style, grammar, and content. They should contain a thesis, explanation and evidence to support it, and a conclusion. The papers should be approximately 1500 words in length. Please use standard margins and Times New Roman size 12. Your name, the course, the date, and the question number you have chosen should appear at the top of the page.
This is not a research paper, so you do not need to use any sources besides the Confessions. When you cite from the text, please insert the page numbers in parentheses at the end of the sentence:
Augustine says that he wanted “to enjoy the theft for its own sake, and the sin” (41).