How does Augustine dramatize the moment of his conversion? How important is it that events happened exactly the way that he said they did?
Augustine dramatizes his conversion to be explicitly God led. It is important that events happened exactly the way that he said they did because with that, not only is the climax of the story fulfilled as a narrative, but also his conversion was brought by good, and not by his own power, but his decision. With this, the nature of God and sin, which is one of the main themes of the confessions, is portrayed through this conversion to his audience, which is the people of the church.
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