Homilies on the First Epistle of John (Tractatus in Epistolam Joannis ad Parthos)

by Augustine of Hippo

Publisher:

New City Press

, 2008

Overview

Saint Augustine’s ten homilies on the First Epistle of John are among his greatest and most influential works. John and Augustine both develop the same central theme love and in these homilies Augustine uses John’s epistle as a point of departure for exploring the meaning and implications of love with his customary profundity, passion and analytic rigor. As with John, a context of dissension and conflict within the Christian community (the Donatist breakaway from Catholic unity), gives his preaching a tone of urgency and poignancy. Anyone who reads these homilies, universally viewed as classics, cannot fail to be moved and challenged both intellectually and emotionally.

Product Details

• Title: Homilies on the First Epistle of John (Tractatus in Epistolam Joannis ad Parthos)
• Author: Augustine of Hippo
• Series: The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century
• Volume: 14
• Publisher: New City Press
• Print Publication Date: 2008
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Theology › Early church, ca. 30-600
• ISBNs: 9781565480551, 9781565482833, 9781565482890, 1565480554, 1565482891
• Resource ID: LLS:AGSTNHMLS83JN1
• Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:06:04Z

About Augustine of Hippo

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) is often simply referred to as St. Augustine or Augustine Bishop of Hippo (the ancient name of the modern city of Annaba in Algeria). He is the preeminent Doctor of the Church according to Roman Catholicism, and is considered by Evangelical Protestants to be in the tradition of the Apostle Paul as the theological fountainhead of the Reformation teaching on salvation and grace.