This thesis is a case study of the relationship between literature and religion, which illustrates the representation of the Christian spirit in literature and the poetic revelation in theology, through analyzing, comparing and interpreting the correlation between Augustine s Confessions and related themes in western literature.

A Comparative Study of the Aesthetic Thoughts in Tanjingand Confessions;

This paper analyzes Augustine & his Confessions by means of an aesthetic approach, expounds the spirit of life from the angles of the belief collapse & the appealing to God, the evil of happy life & mortifying piety, and reveals the miserable consciousness of the Western people at the Middle Ages.