Saint Augustine: Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects
Overview
A collection of nine short works by Augustine and translated by numerous editors for the Fathers of the Church Series. Among these works includes:
- The Good of Marriage
- Adulterous Marriages
- Holy Virginity
- Faith and Works
- The Creed
- Faith and the Creed
- The Care to be Taken for the Dead
- In Answer to the Jews
- The Divination of Demons
For The Fathers of the Church series in its entirety, see Fathers of the Church Series (127 vols.).
Key Features
- Quality translations well-suited for modern scholarship
- These topical works allow readers to better understand his position on several subjects
- One of 127 published volumes in a well-respected series on the Church Fathers
Top Highlights
“For, although it is disgraceful to make use of a husband for purposes of lust, it is honorable to refuse to have intercourse except with a husband and not to give birth except from a husband.” (Page 16)
“In marriage, intercourse for the purpose of generation has no fault attached to it, but for the purpose of satisfying concupiscence, provided with a spouse, because of the marriage fidelity, it is a venial sin; adultery or fornication, however, is a mortal sin. And so, continence from all intercourse is certainly better than marital intercourse itself which takes place for the sake of begetting children.” (Page 17)
“the marriage of male and female is something good.” (Page 12)
“When you have been baptized, hold to the good life in the commandments of God that you may preserve your baptism up to the very end. I do not say to you that you will live here without sin, but they are venial sins which we cannot avoid in this life. Baptism was devised for all sins; for slight sins without which it is impossible to live, prayer was found. How does the prayer go? ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.’1 We are cleansed but once by baptism; daily we are cleansed by prayer.” (Pages 305–306)
“It can happen, therefore, that someone avoid real sins, and be conscious of real virtues in himself, and give thanks for them to the Father of lights, from whom every good gift and every perfect gift comes,8 yet be damned because of the vice of pride if in his superiority he despise the other sinners, especially those who confess their sins in prayer, or even only in thought, since this is evident to God. Such sinners, indeed, deserve not an arrogant upbraiding, but mercy untouched by despair.” (Page 181)
- Title: Saint Augustine: Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects
- Author: Augustine of Hippo
- Series: The Fathers of the Church
- Volume: 27
- Publisher: Catholic University of America
- Print Publication Date: 1955
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 456
- Era: era:nicene
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Theology › Early works to 1800
- ISBNs: 0813209676, 9780813209678
- Resource ID: LLS:TRTSSMRRGTHRSBJ
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T21:03:57Z