Augustine of Hippo: Selected Writings
Overview
This collection of Augustine’s writings includes excerpts from his Confessions, On the Trinity, The City of God, and Homilies on the Psalms, along with the complete texts of the Rule of St. Augustine, On Seeing God, and On the Presence of God.
For a massive collection including over a hundred and twenty of the volumes in this series, see the Classics of Western Spirituality Bundle (126 vols.).
Key Features
- Curated selections from a giant of the faith
- Fully integrates and cross references with other resources from your Logos library
- These primary sources allow modern scholars tto better understand the life and thought of Augustine of Hippo
Top Highlights
“Later he became convinced that wisdom cannot thrive without faith, hope, and charity” (Page 4)
“I am the food of grown men. Grow and you shall feed upon me. You will not change me into yourself, but you will be changed into me.’” (Page xvi)
“There is in this Trinity an absolute equality. The Father is not greater in divinity than the Son; nor together” (Page 313)
“And you will not, as with the food of the body, change me into yourself, but you will be changed into me!’9” (Page 11)
“only for what is original and peculiar to him. After his conversion to the Christian” (Page xii)
- Title: Augustine of Hippo: Selected Writings
- Authors: Augustine of Hippo, Mary T. Clark
- Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
- Publisher: Paulist Press
- Print Publication Date: 1984
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Pages: 544
- Era: era:nicene
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Theology › Early works to 1800; Sermons, Latin › Translations into English
- ISBNs: 0809125730, 9780809125739
- Resource ID: LLS:GSTNHPPSLWRTNGS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:55:35Z
About the Author
Augustine of Hippo (AD 354–430) was born in Thagaste, Numidia, in Northern Africa. He studied rhetoric in Carthage when he was 17. As an adult, Augustine abandoned the Christianity of his youth to pursue Manichaeism. Through his Manichaen connections, Augustine became professor of rhetoric at the imperial court of Milan. While in Milan, Augustine was heavily influenced by the bishop of Milan, Ambrose. Influenced by Ambrose and by the biography of St. Anthony, Augustine began exploring Christianity and eventually reconverted. He was baptized in 387 and returned to Africa. There he was ordained and became a well-known preacher and apologist for the Christian faith. He was eventually made Bishop of Hippo, an office he held until his death in 430. His works are collected in the Fathers of the Church: St. Augustine collection.