Saint Augustine (354–430)
Author of The Confessions of St. Augustine
About the Author
Saint Augustine was born to a Catholic mother and a pagan father on November 13, 354, at Thagaste, near Algiers. He studied Latin literature and later taught rhetoric in Rome and Milan. He originally joined the Manicheans, a religious sect, but grew unhappy with some of their philosophies. After show more his conversion to Christianity and his baptism in 387, Augustine developed his own approach to philosophy and theology, accommodating a variety of methods and different perspectives. He believed that the grace of Christ was indispensable to human freedom, and he framed the concepts of original sin and just war. His thoughts greatly influenced the medieval worldview. One of Augustine's major goals was a single, unified church. He was ordained a priest in 391 and appointed Bishop of Hippo, in Roman Africa, in 396. Augustine was one of the most prolific Latin authors in terms of surviving works, and the list of his works consists of more than one hundred separate titles. His writings and arguments with other sects include the Donatists and the Pelagians. On the Trinity, The City of God, and On Nature and Grace are some of his important writings. Confessions, which is considered his masterpiece, is an autobiographical work that recounts his restless youth and details the spiritual experiences that led him to Christianity. Many of Augustine's ideas, such as those concerning sin and predestination, became integral to the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. In the Catholic Church he is a saint and pre-eminent Doctor of the Church, and the patron of the Augustinians. He is the patron saint of brewers, printers, and theologians. Augustine died on August 28, 430. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Saint Augustine
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Volume 03: St. Augustine: On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises (1956) 343 copies, 3 reviews
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Volume 08: St. Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms (1956) 343 copies, 1 review
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Volume 06: St. Augustine: Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount, Harmony of the Gospels, Homilies on the Gospels (1980) 330 copies, 2 reviews
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Volume 04: St. Augustine: The Writings against the Manichaeans and against the Donatists (1956) 314 copies, 1 review
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Volume 07: St. Augustine: Gospel of John, First Epistle of John, Soliliquies (1956) 308 copies, 2 reviews
On Genesis (Vol. I/13) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (1990) 222 copies
Teaching Christianity (Vol. I/11) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (1995) 160 copies, 1 review
Homilies on the Gospel of John 1-40 (Vol III/12) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (2009) 103 copies
Augustine: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) (1994) 98 copies
Essential Sermons: (Classroom Resource Edition) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (2007) — Author — 95 copies, 1 review
Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings (2010) 85 copies
Commentary on the Lord's Sermon on the Mount, with Seventeen Related Sermons (1951) 71 copies, 2 reviews
The Immortality of the Soul; The Magnitude of the Soul; On Music; The Advantage of Believing; On Faith in Things Unseen (1947) 68 copies
Marriage and Virginity (Vol. 1/9) (Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (1996) 63 copies
The Happy Life; Answer to Sceptics; Divine Providence and the Problem of Evil, Soliloquies (Fathers of the Church Patristic Series) (1948) 55 copies
Expositions of the Psalms 73-98 (Vol. III/18) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (2002) 51 copies
Propositions from the Epistle to the Romans; Unfinished Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (1982) 48 copies
Selected Writings on Grace and Pelagianism (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (2011) 42 copies
Obras de San Agustin. 41 copies
Augustine's Commentary on Galatians: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Notes (2003) — Author — 41 copies
Answer to the Pelagians I (Vol. I/23) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (1997) 38 copies
Answer to the Pelagians IV (Vol. I/26) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (1999) 35 copies
Sermons 20-50 (III/2) (Works of Saint Augustine:A Translation for the 21st Century) (1991) 34 copies
New Testament I and II (Vol. I/15 & Vol. I/16) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (2014) 32 copies
Sermons 1-19 (Vol. III/1) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (1990) 32 copies
Sermons 184-229Z (Vol. III/6) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (1993) 31 copies
Sermons 230-272 (Vol. III/7) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (1993) 29 copies
Answer to the Pelagians II (Vol. I/24) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (Works of Saint Augustine, 24) (1999) 28 copies
Sermons 306-340A (Vol. III/9) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (1994) 27 copies
Sermons 273-305A (Vol. III/8) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (1994) 26 copies
Sermons 341-400 (Vol. III/10) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (1982) 25 copies
Essential Expositions of the Psalms: (Classroom Resource Edition) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (2015) 25 copies
Sermons 94A-150 (Vol. III/4) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (1992) 23 copies
Obras completas de San Agustín. XXXI: Escritos antimaniqueos (2.º): Réplica a Fausto, el maniqueo (NORMAL) (Spanish and Latin Edition) (1993) 22 copies, 1 review
Answer to Faustus, a Manichean: Volume 20 (The Works of Saint Augustine, a Translation for the 21st Century: Part 1 - Books) (2007) 21 copies
Restless Till We Rest in You: 60 Reflections from the Writings of St. Augustine (The Saints Speak Today Series) (1998) 21 copies
Christian Classics: Confessions of Saint Augustine: The Imitation of Christ: Pilgrim's Progress (1997) — Contributor — 20 copies
City of God: An Abridged Version 15 copies
Delphi Collected Works of Saint Augustine (Illustrated) (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 68) (2016) 14 copies
Amore assoluto e " Terza navigazione: Commento alla Prima Lettera di Giovanni : Commento al Vangelo di Giovanni (Testi a fronte) (1994) 14 copies
The works of Saint Augustine: A translation for the 21st century (Currently at 42 volumes) 14 copies
The pilgrim city : social and political ideas in the writings of St. Augustine of Hippo (2001) 13 copies
Sermons (Vol. III/11) (Newly Discovered) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (1997) 13 copies
Wat betekent de bijbel? : christelijke scholing in tekstbegrip en presentatie : De doctrina christiana (1999) 13 copies
Als korrels tussen kaf : preken over teksten uit het Marcus- en het Lucasevangelie : (sermones de scripturis 94A-116 367) (2002) 12 copies
An Augustine treasury: Religious imagery selections taken from the writings of Saint Augustine (1981) 12 copies
Sobre o Sermao do Senhor na Montanha: Incluido o Pai-nosso - Edicao Bilingue Latim e Portugues (2016) 12 copies
Epistulae. Selections (Latin) 11 copies
By Saint Augustine Soliloquies: Augustine's Inner Dialogue (Augustine (New City Press)) (BK. 5) (1792) 10 copies
Writings of Saint Augustine 10 copies
A Graça 2. A Graça e a Liberdade, a Correção e a Graça, a Predestinação dos Santos, o Dom da Perseverança - Volume 13 (2000) 10 copies, 2 reviews
CCEL Classics CD: works by Saint Augustine, John Calvin, John Donne, Julian of Norwich, Brother Lawrence, Martin Luther, (2006) — Author — 10 copies
Augustine: On Christian Doctrine by D. W. Robertson Jr. (January 01,1958) (1657) — Author — 9 copies
What Augustine says 9 copies
Obras completas de San Agustín. XXX: Escritos antimaniqueos (1.º): Las dos almas del hombre. Actas del debate contra el maniqueo Fortunato. Réplica a ... Félix (NORMAL)… (1986) 8 copies, 1 review
St Augustine LifeGuide: Words to Live By from the Great Christian Saint (A Lifeguide) (2006) 8 copies, 1 review
Obras completas de San Agustín. XXXVIII: Escritos antiarrianos y otros herejes: Las herejías. Sermón de los arrianos. Debate con Maximino. A Orosio, ... (NORMAL) (Spanish and… (1990) 8 copies, 1 review
The teaching of St. Augustine on prayer & the contemplative life; a translation of various passages from the Saint's sermons and other writings (1935) 7 copies
Thirteen homilies of St. Augustine on St. John XIV In Ioh. Ev. tractatus LXVII-LXXIX (1902) 7 copies
Morality and Christian Asceticism (Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) (2023) 7 copies
Contra Academicos, De beata vita, De ordine (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana) (Latin Edition) (2017) 7 copies
Letters 6 copies
Obras completas de San Agustín. V: Escritos apologéticos (2.º): La Trinidad: 5 (NORMAL) (2006) 5 copies
Como Catequizar os Rudes 5 copies
Sermões para a Páscoa 5 copies
WORKS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE, THE 5 copies
Dialogi filozoficzne II 5 copies
Dialoghi 5 copies
De weg komt naar u toe : preken over teksten uit het Johannesevangelie : (sermones de scripturis 117-147A 368) (2007) 5 copies
On Christian doctrine ; The Enchiridion ; On catechising ; On faith and the Creed (The works of Aurelius Augustine, Bish (1883) 5 copies
Confissões 5 copies
Obras completas de San Agustín. XXVI Sermones (6º) 339-396. Sobre temas diversos. Índices bíblico, litúrgico y temático de los Sermones (1985) 4 copies, 1 review
Confessions [Three Volume Set] 4 copies
Sermons 4 copies
King Alfred's Old English version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies, turned into modern English. Two volumes in one (2012) 4 copies
Saint Augustine : Letters Volume 2 (83-130) The Fathers of the Church. A New Translation Volume 18 (1953) 4 copies
Obras completas de San Agustín. XXIX: Escritos bíblicos (5.º): Anotaciones al libro de Job. Concordancia de los evangelistas (1992) 4 copies
27: Esposizioni sui Salmi. 3.: testo latino dall'edizione maurina ripresa sostanzialmente dal Corpus christianorum (1993) 4 copies
De musica : Bücher I und VI : vom ästhetischen Urteil zur metaphysischen Erkenntnis : lateinisch-deutsch (2002) 4 copies
Oeuvres de Saint Augustin. 73A [9e série], Homélies sur l'évangile de Saint Jean 34-43 (1988) 4 copies
Obras completas de San Agustin. 4 copies
The Complete Works of St. Augustine: Crosslinked to the Bible and with inline footnotes (2025) 4 copies
Il maestro interiore 4 copies
Polemica con i donatisti (vol.4): testo latino dell'edizione maurina confrontato con il Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (1999) 4 copies
Tratados sobre la gracia 4 copies
Holy virginity (Selections from the works of the Fathers of the Church in pamphlet form) (1961) 4 copies
The immortality of the soul 4 copies
O Sermão da Montanha 4 copies
Patrística - A Graça (I) - Vol. 12: O espírito e a letra | A natureza e a graça | A graça de Cristo e o pecado original (Portuguese Edition) (2014) 4 copies
St. Augustine 4 copies
Patrística: Explicação de algumas proposições da carta aos Romanos | Explicação da carta aos Gálatas |… (2014) 4 copies
Patrística - A natureza do bem / O castigo e o perdão dos pecados / O batismo das crianças - Vol. 40 (2005) 4 copies
Opera omnia. Le lettere (Vol 33) 4 copies
Obras de San Agustín Tomo I 4 copies
St. Augustin: Confessions & Letters 4 copies
uvres de saint Augustin, I-VII = De Genesi ad litteram libri duodecim / La Gen au sens littl en douze livres (2000) 3 copies
La Création du monde et le Temps/Le Ciel et la Terre (Folio Sagesses) (French Edition) (2017) 3 copies
Enarrationes in Psalmos (1-59) 3 copies
The Happy Life; Soliloquies 3 copies
Over den staat : gedachten 3 copies
S. Aurelii Augustini Confessiones: Ad Fidem Codicum Lipsiensium Et Editionum Antiquiorum Recognitas (Latin Edition) (2010) 3 copies
The unity of Christians 3 copies
Select Anti-Pelagian Treatises of St. Augustine and the Acts of the Second Council of Orange (1880) 3 copies
On Taming the Tongue; On Life's Pilgrimage; The Holy Eucharist; Christ: The Glory of Martyrs; On the Beatitudes (1962) 3 copies
Tratados 3 copies
Sermons 3 copies
Cartas 3 copies
Obras completas de San Agustín. XXXVI Escritos antipelagianos (4.º). Réplica a Juliano (Libros I-III) (1985) 3 copies
Enarraciones sobre los salmos 3 copies
上帝之城(上冊) 3 copies
DIALOGHI II LA GRANDEZZA DELL'ANIMA. IL LIBERO ARBITRIO. LA MUSICA. IL MAESTRO. INTRODUZIONE E NOTE A CURA DI DOMENICO GENTILI (1982) 3 copies
Mestre, O - Dialogo Entre Pai E Filho Sobre A Linguagem E A Descoberta Da Verdade Interior (2010) 3 copies
Augustin 3 copies
Amore. Il nutrimento dell'anima 3 copies
La riconciliazione cristiana 3 copies
Divi Aurelii Augustini, hipponensis episcopi, Meditationes, Soliloquia et Manuale: accesserunt: et 3 copies
La Genesi (vol. 1) 3 copies
The Works Of Aurelius Augustine, Bishop Of Hippo: The Letters Of Saint Augustine V1 (1872) (2007) 3 copies
The Word of God and mankind 3 copies
Five Seminars on Musicianship 3 copies
Patristica - a Simpliciano - Replica a Carta de Parmeniano - Volume 41 (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2019) 3 copies
Il filosofo e la fede: Soliloqui, La vera religione, L'utilità del credere, La fede nelle cose che non si vedono (1989) 3 copies
Problèmes moraux 3 copies
The church and mankind 3 copies
In Iohannis Evangelium tractus cxxiv 3 copies
Patrística - Comentários a São João I - Evangelho - Homilias 1-49 - Vol. 47/1 (Portuguese Edition) 3 copies
Patrística - A verdadeira religião | O cuidado devido aos mortos - Vol. 19 (Portuguese Edition) (2014) 3 copies
Obras de Sant Agustin. 2 copies
Traité de la vie heureuse 2 copies
Saint Augustin. La Lumière intérieure : . Textes choisis et traduits par Jean-Claude Fraisse (1965) 2 copies
Proti akademikom 2 copies
Erce, Gregorio (ed.). 2 copies
Solilocvii 2 copies
Obras de San Agustiin. 2 copies
Luis, Pio de. 2 copies
St. Augustine’s Confessions, vol. 2 2 copies
Retractationum libri duo 2 copies
Obras apologéticas 2 copies
Saint Augustine: The Christian Life 2 copies
Faith, hope and charity 2 copies
De catechizandis rudibus 2 copies
Augustine day by day: Minute meditations for every day taken from the writings of Saint Augustine 2 copies
Geloof is het begin : Preken over teksten uit brieven van het Nieuwe Testament [Sermones de scriptoria 162C-183] (2013) 2 copies
Rule of Saint Augustine, The 2 copies
Enarrationes in Psalmos 2 copies
St. Augustine 2 copies
St. Augustine: Holy virginity 2 copies
Voedsel voor de ogen 2 copies
Obras de San Agustin. 22 : Enarraciones sobre los Salmos / ed. prep. por Balbino Martin Perez ; 4 2 copies
DIALOGHI I LA CONTROVERSIA ACCADEMICA LA FELICITÀ L'ORDINE I SOLILOQUI L'IMMORTALITÀ DELL'ANIMA. INTRODUZIONE E NOTE A CURA DI DOMENICO GENTILI (1970) 2 copies
DISCORSI SU I TEMPI LITURGICI 2 copies
Commento ai salmi 2 copies
Tratado sobre la Santísima Trinidad 2 copies
Commento al Vangelo di S. Giovanni 2 copies
La dignit del matrimonio 2 copies
La dottrina cristiana 2 copies
Ciudad de Dios 2 copies
Polemica con Giuliano 2 copies
Vital Missions Issues 2 copies
Grazie e libertà 2 copies
Obras de San Agustin. 20 : Enarraciones sobre los Salmos / ed. prep. por Balbino Martin Perez ; 2 2 copies
Obras de San Agustin. 19 : Enarraciones sobre los Salmos / ed. prep. por Balbino Martin Perez ; 1 2 copies
Obras de San Agustin. 21 : Enarraciones sobre los Salmos / ed. prep. por Balbino Martin Perez ; 3 2 copies
Confesiones - Meditaciones - Manual 2 copies
Commentaire de la Première Épître de S. Jean [Commentary on the First Epistle of Saint John] 2 copies
From Fear To Freedom 2 copies
Agostino 2 copies
O zgodności Ewangelistów 2 copies
Soliloqui 2 copies
Obras y textos monásticos : El trabajo de los monjes ; La santa virginidad ; Sermones (2009) 2 copies
Dels Acadèmics I 2 copies
Enarrationes in Psalmos (1) 2 copies
Homilías 2 copies
Vom Gottesstaat. 2 2 copies
Sur le mensonge - Du maître: Le menteur aime à mentir et goûte le plaisir de le faire (2019) 2 copies
Vom Gottesstaat. 1 2 copies
Avrelii Avgvstini De civitate Dei 2 copies
Obras completas de San Agustín. XXV Sermones (5º) 273-338. Sermones sobre los mártires (1984) 2 copies
Obras completas de San Agustín. XXXVII: Escritos antipelagianos (5.º): Réplica a Juliano (Libros IV-VI) (1985) 2 copies
Die Lüge und Gegen die Lüge 2 copies
Augustinus over het Credo 2 copies
Wijsheid van leerlingen preken over teksten uit de Handelingen van de Apostelen : sermones de scripturis 148-150 (2007) 2 copies
God zoeken met de zinnen? : de leefwijze van de kerk en de leefwijze van de manicheeërs (2008) 2 copies
Augustin: Homilies on the Gospel of John, Homilies on the First Epistle of John, Soliloquies 2 copies
Augustinus over den staat 2 copies
La musique. De musica libri sex 2 copies
Opervm 2 copies
La dignità del matrimonio 2 copies
Leaves from St. Augustine 2 copies
Acts Or Disputation Against Fortunatus The Manichean ([Acta] contra Fortunatum [Manichaeum]) (2015) 2 copies
Saint Augustine 2 copies
O livre arbitrio 2 copies
Aurelius Augustinus, De musica liber VI : a critical edition with a translation and an introduction (2002) 2 copies
Operum 2 copies
A Cidade de Deus - Volume III 2 copies
Works of Augustine vol XI - Lectures or tractates on the Gospel according to St. John vol ii 2 copies
Patrística - A fé e o símbolo | Primeira catequese aos não cristãos | A disciplina cristã | A continência - Vol. 32 (Portuguese… (2014) 2 copies
Patrística - Contra os Acadêmicos | A Ordem | A grandeza da Alma | O Mestre - Vol. 24 (Portuguese Edition) (2014) 2 copies
A cidade de deus V1 2 copies
Homilies on the Gospel according to St. John, and His First Epistle. Volume 1, Hom. I-XLIII, S. John I-VIII (2010) 2 copies, 1 review
The City of God (Abridged - Part I) 2 copies
Sermons 51–94 on the New Testament 2 copies
The City of God, tr. H. Bettensen 2 copies
Nicene and post-Nicene fathers A select Library of the Christian Church - First Series books 1 - 14 1 copy
Confessioni - Volume 1 1 copy
Confessioni - Volume 2 1 copy
El bien del matrimonio 1 copy
Patrística - O Sermão da Montanha e Escritos Sobre a Fé - Vol. 36 (Portuguese Edition) (2017) 1 copy
[De civitate Dei. Latin and French] La cité de Dieu : livres 19-22: triomphe de la cité céleste 1 copy
La cura e il culto dei morti 1 copy
La dignita del matrimonio 1 copy
Like as the hart 1 copy
Uren met Augustinus 1 copy
Saint Augustine : Letters. 1 copy
Contra Faustum Manichaeum 1 copy
Patrística: A natureza do bem / O castigo e o perdão dos pecados e o batismo das crianças - Volume 40 (Portuguese Edition) (2019) 1 copy
Enchiridion theologicum Sancti Augustini quod paravit et notis auxit Franciscus Moriones, O.R.S.A 1 copy
A natureza do bem 1 copy
Isten városáról 1 copy
Obras de San Augustin XIV 1 copy
This is Your Life 1 copy
Antologia 1 copy
EXPOSITIONS ON THE BOOK OF PSALMS VOL. II - PSALM XXXVII.-LII. Translated with Notes and Indices (1848) 1 copy
Obras de San Agustín Tomo II 1 copy
Letters. Vol.5, (204-270) 1 copy
Sermons 1 copy
Sermons 1 copy
[De Genesi ad litteram. Latin and French] La Genèse au sens littéral en douze livres (VIII-XII) 1 copy
Ama e fà ciò che vuoi 1 copy
Sant'Agostino si confessa 1 copy
il filosofo e la fede 1 copy
Le confessioni. Prefazione di Michele Pellegrino. Traduzione e note di Carlo Carena. Coll. "I millenni". (1970) 1 copy
Comentário a São João - Evangelho - Homilias 50-124 e Primeira Epístola - Vol. 47/2 Coleção Patrística (2022) 1 copy
Œuvres II 1 copy
La cité de Dieu 3 1 copy
IV Dialogues philosophiques 1 copy
V Dialogues philosophiques 1 copy
La morale chrétienne 1 copy
III L'ascétisme chrétien 1 copy
On The Merits And Forgiveness Of Sins, And On The Baptism Of Infants (With Active Table of Contents) 1 copy
On the Works of Monks 1 copy
On Holy Virginity 1 copy
Obras de San Agustín (edición bilingüe) Tomo XIII: Tratados Sobre el Evangelio de San Juan (1-35) (1955) 1 copy
The Confessions Book 3 1 copy
Quaestiones in bibliam 1 copy
Epistolae 1 copy
CityofGod 1 copy
On the Beatitudes 1 copy
La ciudad de dios II 1 copy
La ciudad de dios I 1 copy
San Agustinen Gogoetak 1 copy
Obras de san Agustin Tomo II 1 copy
Fathers of the Church: Writings of St. Augustine — Author — 1 copy
Comentário ao Gênesis 1 copy
O Sermão da Montanha, acompanha a biografia de Santo Agostinho - Coleção Minha Biblioteca Católica 1 copy
Pagine autobiografiche 1 copy
Patrística - A Simpliciano | Réplica à carta de Parmeniano - Volume 41 (Portuguese Edition) (2019) 1 copy
A instrução dos Catecúmenos: Teoria e prática da catequese [paperback] Agostinho, Santo and Novak, Maria da Glória (2021) 1 copy
La Ciudad de Dios, Tomo II 1 copy
Dialoghi con se stesso : vol.13 della Collana Classici Compact Filosofia Antica per Spiriti Moderni 1 copy
Da Grandeza da Alma 1 copy
La Ciudad de Dios, Tomo I 1 copy
Graça e Livre-Arbítrio 1 copy
On The Apostles' Creed 1 copy
Latin / English: Confessions 1 copy
Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos: 187: Obras de San Agustin en edicion bibingüe: Tomo XVIII (último) 1 copy
The Confessions; The Teacher 1 copy
Bekännelser. D. 1 1 copy
As fontes do poder social - Vol. 2. O surgimento das classes e dos estados-nacoes - 1760-1914 (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2019) 1 copy
O livre Arbitrio. Livro 3 1 copy
Escritos Monásticos 1 copy
La natura del bene 1 copy
The Contemplation of Christ 1 copy
Obras completas de San Agustin: Escritos antipelagianos (4) replica a Juliano (obra inacabada) 1 copy
Vyznání svatého Augustina 1 copy
Les Traités de St. Augustin sur l'Evangile de St Jean, et son épitre aux Parthes, Tomes I, III, IV 1 copy
Saint Augustine 1 copy
Oeuvres de Saint Augustin : texte de l'édition bénédictine, introduction, traduction et notes 1 copy
شرح الموعظة على الجبل 1 copy
О Троице, часть 1 1 copy
О Троице, часть 2 1 copy
Despre adevarata religie 1 copy
Obras completas de San Agustín XXIV Sermones (4º) 184-272. Sobre los tiempos litúrgicos (2005) 1 copy
Obras completas de San Agustín. XXIII Sermones (3º) 117-183. Sobre el Evangelio de San Juan, Hechos de los Apóstoles y Cartas (2015) 1 copy
Om den kristne taler 1 copy
Confissões de um Pecador 1 copy
Państwo Boże 1 copy
Obras de San Agustin Tomo IV 1 copy
Mélanges doctrinaux 1 copy
Le Magistère chrétien 1 copy
St. Augustine, a biographical sketch, compiled from the saint's own writings with explanatory notes 1 copy
Oeuvres complètes 1 copy
Sancti Aurelii Augustini episcopi De civitate Dei libri XXII Vol. I, Lib. I-XIII, Duas Epistulas ad Firmum (1993) 1 copy
Dialogues philosophiques 1 copy
Sermons pour la Pâque 1 copy
Dialogi i pisma filozoficzne 1 copy
Exposición sobre el LIBRO DE LOS SALMOS Tomo II (Sal. 60-102): Ivory Falls Books (Spanish Edition) (2017) 1 copy
Saint Augustine: De Beata Vita (Happiness), De Immortalitate Animae (Immortality of the Soul) 1 copy
Confessions/Augustine 1 copy
A cidade de Deus Vol. II 1 copy
Little Book of Contemplation 1 copy
La Trinite I: Le Mystere (Livres I-VII) (Bibliotheque Augustinienne) (French and Latin Edition) 1 copy
La Trinite, Livres I-VII 1 copy
[De civitate Dei. Latin and French] La cité de Dieu : livres 1-5: impuissance sociale du paganisme 1 copy
La foi chrétienne. 1 copy
Traités anti-donatistes II. 1 copy
Traités anti-donatistes I. 1 copy
La crise pélagienne I. 1 copy
Six traités anti-manichéens. 1 copy
Mélanges doctrinaux. 1 copy
L'ascétisme chrétien. 1 copy
Sermones Ad Hermitas 1 copy
Soliloqui 1 copy
Quartus tomus operum divi Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis episcopi complectens reliqua tōn didaktikōn 1 copy
Secundus tomus operum divi Aurelii Augustini episcopi Hipponensis, complectens illius epistolas 1 copy
Cidade de Deus 1 copy
Traités anti-donatistes III. 1 copy
Prolegomena 1 copy
Epitome omnium operum 1 copy
O Boží obci : knih XXII 1 copy
Traités anti-donatistes IV. 1 copy
Traités anti-donatistes V. 1 copy
Przeciw Faustusowi T1-2 1 copy
Proti akademikom 1 copy
Izpovedi 1 copy
St. Augustin: Homilies on the Gospel of John, Homilies on the first epistle of John, Soliloquies. 1 copy
Ljubi in delaj kar hočeš 1 copy
Enchiridion ad Laurentium ; de fide et spe et caritate (in Aurelii Augustini Opera Pars XIII, 2) 1 copy
Los procesos de Jos Antonio 1 copy
Letters : Volume 6 (1*-29*) 1 copy
Christian instruction. 1 copy
Enarrationes in Psalmos (2) 1 copy
De Trinitate 1 copy
CONFESSIONI. B 1-FONS 1 copy
Catequitzar amb alegria 1 copy
Confesiuni 1 copy
Letters : Volume 5 (204-270) 1 copy
Pagine di S. Agostino 1 copy
Lettera a Proba 1 copy
De arte praedicandi 1 copy
Sancti Avrelii Avgvstini Qvaestiones Evangeliorvm, cum appendice Qvaestionvm XVI in Matthaevm 1 copy
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Early writings 1 copy
Sancti Avrelii Avgvstini De diversis qvaestionibvs octoginta tribvs ; De octo Dvlcitii qvaestionibvs 1 copy
Unless the Grain Die. 1 copy
Der gültige Gottesstaat 1 copy
Państwo Boże tom II 1 copy
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- Augustine of Hippo (Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine or Saint Austin, was an early Christian theologian whose writings were very influential in the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. He was bishop of Hippo Regius (present-day Annaba, Algeria) located in the Roman province of Africa. Writing during the Patristic Era, he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers in the West. Among his most important works are City of God and Confessions, which continue to be read widely today.
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Oh Augustine, lingering in my periphery since I was a teenager. I almost bought your confessions when I was seventeen, it was there at the used bookstore in Toronto, but I think I went for Waugh instead. Augustine, looming large in my religious minor and illuminating the corners of my literary major. I always knew it was wrong not to read you and suffered in not having read you sooner. I thought that to read you would be toil and penance, that your Confessions would be uphill work worthwhile show more only in order to have one more trump card in my hand to lay down when boys in bars think they know more than they do. Augustine, my Augustine, who let me believe that you would be anything but pleasure?
In all honesty, when I started reading this book I couldn't stop talking about it to everyone around me. It must have been terrible. "HAVE YOU READ AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS? IT'S SO GOOD! SO GOOD!" I keep doing this, this year. Picking up books that I have had on my radar since my teenage infancy and expecting them to be Hard Work but Good For Me. It's the most masochistic reading program ever. And then I get to them, and I find they are actually so good. People talk about the Confessions and War and Peace but they only ever talk about them being Important. Why don't they ever talk about them being Lovely? Why don't they ever talk about loving these books as books and not as seminal texts of the whatever period?
In this case I was bowled over by the prose, beautiful in this translation but with continual mentions that it's so much better in Latin, so much more full of rhymes and wordplay and euphony. Especially in the first half, both style and content seem so modern, even if most people aren't coming out of Manichaeism or trying to insist to their congregation that plays are probably Very Bad. I don't want to give the book back, which is a point I think the library would disagree with me on, meaning that I'm now earnestly developing a list of books that I've read from libraries and need to own, sooner rather than later. show less
In all honesty, when I started reading this book I couldn't stop talking about it to everyone around me. It must have been terrible. "HAVE YOU READ AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS? IT'S SO GOOD! SO GOOD!" I keep doing this, this year. Picking up books that I have had on my radar since my teenage infancy and expecting them to be Hard Work but Good For Me. It's the most masochistic reading program ever. And then I get to them, and I find they are actually so good. People talk about the Confessions and War and Peace but they only ever talk about them being Important. Why don't they ever talk about them being Lovely? Why don't they ever talk about loving these books as books and not as seminal texts of the whatever period?
In this case I was bowled over by the prose, beautiful in this translation but with continual mentions that it's so much better in Latin, so much more full of rhymes and wordplay and euphony. Especially in the first half, both style and content seem so modern, even if most people aren't coming out of Manichaeism or trying to insist to their congregation that plays are probably Very Bad. I don't want to give the book back, which is a point I think the library would disagree with me on, meaning that I'm now earnestly developing a list of books that I've read from libraries and need to own, sooner rather than later. show less
LIBRARYTHING FACE-OFF: St. Augustine's Confessions (Hippo Regius, the Roman Province of Numidia, 395 CE) v. Usher's Confessions (Jermaine Dupri’s studio, Beverly Hills, 2004)
Forget the Rumble in the Jungle. Kindly disregard Royce Gracie versus Ken Shamrock at UFC 5 Return of the Beast. Don't even mention the match between Shawn Michaels and Ric Flair at Wrestlemania XXIV where Shawn looked deep into his idol's eyes, mouthed the words "I'm sorry. I love you," and then delivered the final show more Sweet Chin Music that ended Flair's career. You haven't seen carnage till you've seen these two heavyweights of the mea culpa milieu go head to head
IN THIS CORNER
Augustine: Catholic Bishop of Hippo, noted theologian, former hard partier and poster boy for wisdom coming from excess
Usher: R&B crooner, sex symbol, nine-time Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper
BACKGROUND
Augustine: Born into the middle-class family of Patricius, a pagan, and Monica, a Christian. Two brothers. Educated in Latin, which he liked, and Greek, which he hated because the masters beat him
Usher: Born in Dallas to Jonetta Patton and Usher Raymond III. Grew up in Chattanooga with his mother and stepfather; joined the church choir at age 9, launching his singing career
Edge: AUGUSTINE
BROS
Augustine: Nebridius, Alypius, Simplicianus, Vecundus, Ambrose of Milan
Usher: Lil Jon, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, Just Blaze, Jay-Z, Justin Bieber
Edge: USHER
HOS
Augustine: Famously debauched in his younger days, he kept several mistresses, including a young Carthaginian woman who bore his son Adeodatus and whom he cold kicked out the house when he converted. Celibate after his conversion, as far as we know
Usher: TLC’s Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas, Naomi Campbell, and wife Tameka Foster, with whom he has two children, Usher Raymond V and Naviyid Ely Raymond, and from whom he recently filed for divorce
Edge: USHER. Google Chilli Thomas if you don’t believe me
LIFECHANGING MOMENT
Augustine: The moment in the garden when he had fallen away from Manicheanism but wasn’t yet ready to embrace Christianity, and he was trying to figure out how to overcome his doubts and a supernatural voice whispered “come read, come read!” and he went to the Bible and the royal road to the priesthood opened up
Usher: Competing on Star Search at age 13, leading to a contract with LaFace Records and the release of his self-titled debut produced by Sean then-“Puff Daddy” Combs
Edge: AUGUSTINE
HOBBIES
Augustine: Gettin’ down with the ladies, boozing, talking to other very serious young men about the nature of being, basking in God’s love, converting the nonbeliever
Usher: Looking gooooooood in a tuxedo, man
Edge: USHER
HARD KNOX
Augustine: Oedipal relationship with mother led to lifetime of guilt only overcome by joining the ministry and giving up his favourite thing (bangin’)
Usher: None. Usher has led the perfect life
Edge: AUGUSTINE
FOIBLES
Augustine: Spent much of his youth in the clutches of a cult that forced the lay believers to cook special meals for the spiritual elite to help them bring forth the little pieces of God that resided in their flesh (where do they come out from?)
Usher: Stuck by his wife after she suffered cardiac arrest and was put into a medically induced coma, but served her with divorce papers immediately upon her recovery
Edge: USHER
GIVIN BACK
Augustine: Helped bring thousands to the light of Christ
Usher: Founder of New Look, a charity that has rebuilt sections of New Orleans financed by the sale of Usher-brand “Love 4 Life” dog tags; in 1999, participated in Challenge for the Children, a charity basketball game hosted by the members of ‘Nsync
Edge: USHER
FAMILY MATTERS
Augustine: Didn’t really care when his dad died, or his son; loved his mother creepily
Usher: Promises in “Prayer for You (Interlude)” to always be there for his son and love him
Edge: USHER
SPECIAL SKILLS
Augustine: Trained as a professor of rhetoric and speechmaker on formal occasions
Usher: Gonna give it to you nonstop, and he don’t care who’s watching
Edge: USHER
IMPACT
Augustine: Widely considered the first autobiography in the Western world, an influential work of Christian thought, the most complete record of an individual life from the fourth century, and an important turning point in the fight against Manicheanism
Usher: The second-best selling album of the 2000’s, winner of a Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B Album, and one of the first R&B albums to incorporate elements of crunk-era hip hop
Edge: AUGUSTINE
LEGACY
Augustine: 1000 years as a style model for composition classes; still studied in its own right as one of the classics of Western civilization. On the other hand, he can also be blamed for A Million Little Pieces
Usher: His 2008 followup Here I Stand contains “Love in this Club”, the best R&B song of the past and maybe the next 20 years
Edge: USHER
KEY CONFESSION
Augustine: He stole those fucking pears. He had better pears at home and he did it anyway! Depraved
Usher: Bout that chick in part one he told yall he was creepin wit … she’s three months pregnant and she’s keepin it
Edge: USHER
VIEWS ON …
SEX:
Augustine: "I intend to remind myself of my past foulnesses and carnal corruptions, not because I love them but so that I may love you, my God"
Usher: “Now put it on me baby till I say ooowee / and tell me to shut up before the neighbours hear me / this is how it feels when you do it like me / we’re trading places” –Trading Places
Edge: USHER
MEMORY:
Augustine: “Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, a deep and boundless manifoldness; and this thing is the mind, and this I am myself. What am I then? What is my nature? A life various and manifold, and exceeding immense. Look, the plains and caves and caverns of my memory are innumerable and innumerably full of innumerable kinds of things, either through images, as all bodies; or by actual presence, as in knowledge of the arts; or by certain notions or impressions, as the emotions and feelings of the mind which—even when the mind does not feel—the memory retains. And whatever is in the memory is also in the mind—over all these different memories I run or I fly: I dive into memories on this side and on that, reaching as far as I can, and there is no end to them. So great is the force of memory, so great the force of life, even in the mortal life of man”
Usher: “Wish I could throw it back / I want it the way it used to be / oh, oh / give me one more chance to make it work / it’s driving me crazy / cause I’m missing my baby / I’m goin’ outta my mind, I’m runnin’ outta time / I just wish I could find you girl” -Throwback
Edge: AUGUSTINE
CONSCIENCE:
Augustine: “Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour”
Usher: “If I’m gonna tell it then I gotta tell it all / damn near cried when I got that phone call / I’m so throwed, I don’t know what to do / but to give you part two of my confessions / Sittin’ here stuck on stupid, tryna figure out / what when and how imma let this comeout my mouth? / said it aint gon be easy but I need to stop thinkin’, contemplatin’ / be a man and get it over with, over with” –Confessions Part II
Edge: USHER
WORSHIP:
Augustine: “You called me; you cried aloud to me; you broke my barrier of deafness. You shone upon me; your radiance enveloped me; you put my blindness to flight. You shed your fragrance about me; I drew breath and now I gasp for your sweet odour. I tasted you, and now I hunger and thirst for you. You touched me, and I am inflamed with love of your peace."
Usher: “I’ll be your groupie baby / cuz you are my superstar / I’m your number one fan, give me your autograph / sign it right here on my heart” -Superstar
Edge: AUGUSTINE
SADNESS:
Augustine: “Everything on which I set my gaze was death …. I had become to myself a vast problem”
Usher: “It’s gonna burn for me to say this / but it’s comin’ from my heart / It’s been a long time coming / but we done been fell apart / really wanna work this out / but I don’t think you’re gonna change / I do but you don’t / think it’s best we go our separate ways” –Burn
Edge: AUGUSTINE
HAPPINESS:
Augustine: "This is my holy joy, which is your mercy you have given me, heedful of my poverty"
Usher: “Just copped your girl a brand new Rolex / but you can never find the time to spend at home / thinkin’ it’s gon keep her happy / when time is all she wanted all along / it’s the simple things in life we forget” –Simple Things
Edge: DRAW
WINNER: By a score of 12-7, the singer takes it. St. Augustine, you could write passages of intoxicating, orgiastic beauty, and you even had some interesting things to say; but mostly your ideas were ugly and awful, you were not a good person, and it's useless to pretend that the compelling way in which you expressed all this sex-disgust and hysterical licking of the divine boot doesn't still exert some pernicious effect on the Christian discourse to this day. I leave you with this stunning piece of 21st century excess, and much good may it due you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiXbRBS5Z58 show less
Forget the Rumble in the Jungle. Kindly disregard Royce Gracie versus Ken Shamrock at UFC 5 Return of the Beast. Don't even mention the match between Shawn Michaels and Ric Flair at Wrestlemania XXIV where Shawn looked deep into his idol's eyes, mouthed the words "I'm sorry. I love you," and then delivered the final show more Sweet Chin Music that ended Flair's career. You haven't seen carnage till you've seen these two heavyweights of the mea culpa milieu go head to head
IN THIS CORNER
Augustine: Catholic Bishop of Hippo, noted theologian, former hard partier and poster boy for wisdom coming from excess
Usher: R&B crooner, sex symbol, nine-time Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper
BACKGROUND
Augustine: Born into the middle-class family of Patricius, a pagan, and Monica, a Christian. Two brothers. Educated in Latin, which he liked, and Greek, which he hated because the masters beat him
Usher: Born in Dallas to Jonetta Patton and Usher Raymond III. Grew up in Chattanooga with his mother and stepfather; joined the church choir at age 9, launching his singing career
Edge: AUGUSTINE
BROS
Augustine: Nebridius, Alypius, Simplicianus, Vecundus, Ambrose of Milan
Usher: Lil Jon, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, Just Blaze, Jay-Z, Justin Bieber
Edge: USHER
HOS
Augustine: Famously debauched in his younger days, he kept several mistresses, including a young Carthaginian woman who bore his son Adeodatus and whom he cold kicked out the house when he converted. Celibate after his conversion, as far as we know
Usher: TLC’s Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas, Naomi Campbell, and wife Tameka Foster, with whom he has two children, Usher Raymond V and Naviyid Ely Raymond, and from whom he recently filed for divorce
Edge: USHER. Google Chilli Thomas if you don’t believe me
LIFECHANGING MOMENT
Augustine: The moment in the garden when he had fallen away from Manicheanism but wasn’t yet ready to embrace Christianity, and he was trying to figure out how to overcome his doubts and a supernatural voice whispered “come read, come read!” and he went to the Bible and the royal road to the priesthood opened up
Usher: Competing on Star Search at age 13, leading to a contract with LaFace Records and the release of his self-titled debut produced by Sean then-“Puff Daddy” Combs
Edge: AUGUSTINE
HOBBIES
Augustine: Gettin’ down with the ladies, boozing, talking to other very serious young men about the nature of being, basking in God’s love, converting the nonbeliever
Usher: Looking gooooooood in a tuxedo, man
Edge: USHER
HARD KNOX
Augustine: Oedipal relationship with mother led to lifetime of guilt only overcome by joining the ministry and giving up his favourite thing (bangin’)
Usher: None. Usher has led the perfect life
Edge: AUGUSTINE
FOIBLES
Augustine: Spent much of his youth in the clutches of a cult that forced the lay believers to cook special meals for the spiritual elite to help them bring forth the little pieces of God that resided in their flesh (where do they come out from?)
Usher: Stuck by his wife after she suffered cardiac arrest and was put into a medically induced coma, but served her with divorce papers immediately upon her recovery
Edge: USHER
GIVIN BACK
Augustine: Helped bring thousands to the light of Christ
Usher: Founder of New Look, a charity that has rebuilt sections of New Orleans financed by the sale of Usher-brand “Love 4 Life” dog tags; in 1999, participated in Challenge for the Children, a charity basketball game hosted by the members of ‘Nsync
Edge: USHER
FAMILY MATTERS
Augustine: Didn’t really care when his dad died, or his son; loved his mother creepily
Usher: Promises in “Prayer for You (Interlude)” to always be there for his son and love him
Edge: USHER
SPECIAL SKILLS
Augustine: Trained as a professor of rhetoric and speechmaker on formal occasions
Usher: Gonna give it to you nonstop, and he don’t care who’s watching
Edge: USHER
IMPACT
Augustine: Widely considered the first autobiography in the Western world, an influential work of Christian thought, the most complete record of an individual life from the fourth century, and an important turning point in the fight against Manicheanism
Usher: The second-best selling album of the 2000’s, winner of a Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B Album, and one of the first R&B albums to incorporate elements of crunk-era hip hop
Edge: AUGUSTINE
LEGACY
Augustine: 1000 years as a style model for composition classes; still studied in its own right as one of the classics of Western civilization. On the other hand, he can also be blamed for A Million Little Pieces
Usher: His 2008 followup Here I Stand contains “Love in this Club”, the best R&B song of the past and maybe the next 20 years
Edge: USHER
KEY CONFESSION
Augustine: He stole those fucking pears. He had better pears at home and he did it anyway! Depraved
Usher: Bout that chick in part one he told yall he was creepin wit … she’s three months pregnant and she’s keepin it
Edge: USHER
VIEWS ON …
SEX:
Augustine: "I intend to remind myself of my past foulnesses and carnal corruptions, not because I love them but so that I may love you, my God"
Usher: “Now put it on me baby till I say ooowee / and tell me to shut up before the neighbours hear me / this is how it feels when you do it like me / we’re trading places” –Trading Places
Edge: USHER
MEMORY:
Augustine: “Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, a deep and boundless manifoldness; and this thing is the mind, and this I am myself. What am I then? What is my nature? A life various and manifold, and exceeding immense. Look, the plains and caves and caverns of my memory are innumerable and innumerably full of innumerable kinds of things, either through images, as all bodies; or by actual presence, as in knowledge of the arts; or by certain notions or impressions, as the emotions and feelings of the mind which—even when the mind does not feel—the memory retains. And whatever is in the memory is also in the mind—over all these different memories I run or I fly: I dive into memories on this side and on that, reaching as far as I can, and there is no end to them. So great is the force of memory, so great the force of life, even in the mortal life of man”
Usher: “Wish I could throw it back / I want it the way it used to be / oh, oh / give me one more chance to make it work / it’s driving me crazy / cause I’m missing my baby / I’m goin’ outta my mind, I’m runnin’ outta time / I just wish I could find you girl” -Throwback
Edge: AUGUSTINE
CONSCIENCE:
Augustine: “Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour”
Usher: “If I’m gonna tell it then I gotta tell it all / damn near cried when I got that phone call / I’m so throwed, I don’t know what to do / but to give you part two of my confessions / Sittin’ here stuck on stupid, tryna figure out / what when and how imma let this comeout my mouth? / said it aint gon be easy but I need to stop thinkin’, contemplatin’ / be a man and get it over with, over with” –Confessions Part II
Edge: USHER
WORSHIP:
Augustine: “You called me; you cried aloud to me; you broke my barrier of deafness. You shone upon me; your radiance enveloped me; you put my blindness to flight. You shed your fragrance about me; I drew breath and now I gasp for your sweet odour. I tasted you, and now I hunger and thirst for you. You touched me, and I am inflamed with love of your peace."
Usher: “I’ll be your groupie baby / cuz you are my superstar / I’m your number one fan, give me your autograph / sign it right here on my heart” -Superstar
Edge: AUGUSTINE
SADNESS:
Augustine: “Everything on which I set my gaze was death …. I had become to myself a vast problem”
Usher: “It’s gonna burn for me to say this / but it’s comin’ from my heart / It’s been a long time coming / but we done been fell apart / really wanna work this out / but I don’t think you’re gonna change / I do but you don’t / think it’s best we go our separate ways” –Burn
Edge: AUGUSTINE
HAPPINESS:
Augustine: "This is my holy joy, which is your mercy you have given me, heedful of my poverty"
Usher: “Just copped your girl a brand new Rolex / but you can never find the time to spend at home / thinkin’ it’s gon keep her happy / when time is all she wanted all along / it’s the simple things in life we forget” –Simple Things
Edge: DRAW
WINNER: By a score of 12-7, the singer takes it. St. Augustine, you could write passages of intoxicating, orgiastic beauty, and you even had some interesting things to say; but mostly your ideas were ugly and awful, you were not a good person, and it's useless to pretend that the compelling way in which you expressed all this sex-disgust and hysterical licking of the divine boot doesn't still exert some pernicious effect on the Christian discourse to this day. I leave you with this stunning piece of 21st century excess, and much good may it due you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiXbRBS5Z58 show less
Saint Augustine's City of God is proof that autism has always existed. This 1000+ treatise contains the answer to every theological question a 5th Century thinker could possibly come up with.
Is the relationship of the body to the soul more like a horse to its rider, or like a tea cup to its contents?
If we are to be restored to our bodies at the end of all things, what will happen if one person has cannibalised another, and thus had part of another individual's body become part of their show more own?
Will you still be fat in heaven? If we are to be resurrected without flaws, does that mean women will be resurrected as men, thus eliminating the "flaw" of being female.
Since sex requires lust, and lust is inherently sinful, how would Adam and Eve have procreated before sin was brought into the world?
Augustine's dogged determination in answering all these questions was only matched by mine in reading this book for the past eight months. Sometimes I had to read a passage more than once to get sense out of it - like the soul/teacup thing, which at first seemed like nonsense but actually did make sense on further thought (a rider is superior to a horse, and if removed from the horse, suffers no loss of substance, but if you pour the water out of a cup it's just gonna go everywhere).
A lot of these digressions can seem silly and tedious but you have to remember the time and place. We are in a declining empire, and Augustine is arguing against paganism. There's probably very few people alive today who sincerely believe what the ancient Romans did with regard to their gods, so the whole context of the argument is foreign to us. Augustine is clearly very well read, which is impressive in his time, since literacy and literature would have been harder to come by.
I was struck most by a single sentence in this tome, one which made me stop, feeling I had come to the very crossroads that western thought had once come to. In his argument about the degeneracy of the pagan way of life, Augustine states that "anyone should be free to do as he likes about his own, or with his own, or with others, if they consent". This is a negative to the pagan ways, spoken with enough feeling to show that he considered this attitude blatantly ridiculous.
It was Augustine's perspective that was stronger in the end, and Christianity's divine laws and militant sex-negativity became so ingrained in our society that we are only just starting to come back to the idea of "being free to do as one likes, with consent", and beginning to unpack our one-size-fits-all-and-if-it-makes-you-miserable-so-be-it approach to sex, gender, family structure...everything.
I felt a little grief in that moment. We could have had 2000 years of freedom and consent! Of course, it's likely Augustine was exaggerating the situation for emphasis - hoping to horrify his reader but instead making me wistful for a past that never existed. I doubt 5th Century society was as free for, say, women, or slaves, as that turn of phrase makes it sound (maybe it was only free men who got to do as they liked?)
Instead, Augustine touts a sanitised sinless society, one that existed before the fall and which will exist again after the resurrection, in which procreation takes place without lust, the act of insemination performed with the same disinterest as one might take out the garbage, and a naked body excites nothing but appreciation of God's wonderful creation. And what will we be doing in the after time, in that world free from sin and struggle and strife, in Augustine's state of "perfect felicity"? We will simply praise and appreciate God. Sounds great to him (apparently), sound horrible to me - a person who thrives on challenge and learning and independence.
Despite disagreeing with Augustine in many ways, I feel some affection for him. Who else would arrive at the single correct belief system by categorising all possible belief systems and systematically eliminating all the bad ones? show less
Is the relationship of the body to the soul more like a horse to its rider, or like a tea cup to its contents?
If we are to be restored to our bodies at the end of all things, what will happen if one person has cannibalised another, and thus had part of another individual's body become part of their show more own?
Will you still be fat in heaven? If we are to be resurrected without flaws, does that mean women will be resurrected as men, thus eliminating the "flaw" of being female.
Since sex requires lust, and lust is inherently sinful, how would Adam and Eve have procreated before sin was brought into the world?
Augustine's dogged determination in answering all these questions was only matched by mine in reading this book for the past eight months. Sometimes I had to read a passage more than once to get sense out of it - like the soul/teacup thing, which at first seemed like nonsense but actually did make sense on further thought (a rider is superior to a horse, and if removed from the horse, suffers no loss of substance, but if you pour the water out of a cup it's just gonna go everywhere).
A lot of these digressions can seem silly and tedious but you have to remember the time and place. We are in a declining empire, and Augustine is arguing against paganism. There's probably very few people alive today who sincerely believe what the ancient Romans did with regard to their gods, so the whole context of the argument is foreign to us. Augustine is clearly very well read, which is impressive in his time, since literacy and literature would have been harder to come by.
I was struck most by a single sentence in this tome, one which made me stop, feeling I had come to the very crossroads that western thought had once come to. In his argument about the degeneracy of the pagan way of life, Augustine states that "anyone should be free to do as he likes about his own, or with his own, or with others, if they consent". This is a negative to the pagan ways, spoken with enough feeling to show that he considered this attitude blatantly ridiculous.
It was Augustine's perspective that was stronger in the end, and Christianity's divine laws and militant sex-negativity became so ingrained in our society that we are only just starting to come back to the idea of "being free to do as one likes, with consent", and beginning to unpack our one-size-fits-all-and-if-it-makes-you-miserable-so-be-it approach to sex, gender, family structure...everything.
I felt a little grief in that moment. We could have had 2000 years of freedom and consent! Of course, it's likely Augustine was exaggerating the situation for emphasis - hoping to horrify his reader but instead making me wistful for a past that never existed. I doubt 5th Century society was as free for, say, women, or slaves, as that turn of phrase makes it sound (maybe it was only free men who got to do as they liked?)
Instead, Augustine touts a sanitised sinless society, one that existed before the fall and which will exist again after the resurrection, in which procreation takes place without lust, the act of insemination performed with the same disinterest as one might take out the garbage, and a naked body excites nothing but appreciation of God's wonderful creation. And what will we be doing in the after time, in that world free from sin and struggle and strife, in Augustine's state of "perfect felicity"? We will simply praise and appreciate God. Sounds great to him (apparently), sound horrible to me - a person who thrives on challenge and learning and independence.
Despite disagreeing with Augustine in many ways, I feel some affection for him. Who else would arrive at the single correct belief system by categorising all possible belief systems and systematically eliminating all the bad ones? show less
One of the most, if not the most, unattractive books I’ve ever read.
Augustine’s self-pity and verbal self-flagellation was repugnant to this reader.
He’s crying out desperately for psychological help and I’m not convinced that he found it.
À propos:
“Only once have I ever encountered a translation that made such a difference, that so opened up for me a previously closed book. That was Frank Sheed’s translation of Augustine’s Confessions, which I found to be as living as molten show more lava. The most widely used translation of the Confessions is the one by a Mr. Pine-Coffin, and it is worthy of his name. It is a dead translation. Sheed’s is living.”
– Dr. Peter Kreeft show less
Augustine’s self-pity and verbal self-flagellation was repugnant to this reader.
He’s crying out desperately for psychological help and I’m not convinced that he found it.
À propos:
“Only once have I ever encountered a translation that made such a difference, that so opened up for me a previously closed book. That was Frank Sheed’s translation of Augustine’s Confessions, which I found to be as living as molten show more lava. The most widely used translation of the Confessions is the one by a Mr. Pine-Coffin, and it is worthy of his name. It is a dead translation. Sheed’s is living.”
– Dr. Peter Kreeft show less
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