Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.1: The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustin with a Sketch of His Life and Work (Catholic Edition)
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Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, First Series, Volume I: The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustin with a Sketch of His Life and Work. The Early Church Fathers is one of the most important collections of historical, philosophical and theological writings available in English to the student of the Christian Church. These documents provide the most comprehensive witness to the development of Christianity and Christian thought during the period immediately following the Apostolic Era. The Catholic edition of Early Church Fathers does not include the introductions, prolegomenae, and various interpretive comments made by the protestant editors of the Edinburgh edition. However, it retains all of the footnotes found in the printed editions. Contents of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series I Augustine of Hippo The Confessions of St. Augustine Letters of St. Augustine
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“‘The soul, appointed to occupy a body inferior in nature to itself after the entrance of sin, governs its own body, not absolutely according to its free will, but only in so far as the laws of the universe permit.’” (Page 491)
“Out of order, they are restless; restored to order, they are at rest. My weight is my love;4 by it am I borne whithersoever I am borne. By Thy Gift we are inflamed, and are borne upwards; we wax hot inwardly, and go forwards. We ascend Thy ways that be in our heart,5 and sing a song of degrees; we glow inwardly with Thy fire, with Thy good fire, and we go, because we go upwards to the peace of Jerusalem; for glad was I when they said unto me, ‘Let us go into the house of the Lord.’6 There hath Thy good pleasure placed us, that we may desire no other thing than to dwell there for ever.” (Page 193)
“those things which Thou fillest Thou fillest by containing them” (Page 46)
“but as a corporeal substance diffused through space” (Page 102)
“chapter i.—in god alone is the hope and joy of man” (Page 142)
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.1: The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustin with a Sketch of His Life and Work (Catholic Edition)
- Authors: Philip Schaff, Augustine of Hippo
- Series: Early Church Fathers (Catholic Edition)
- Volume: 1
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Print Publication Date: 1886
- Logos Release Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian literature, early; Fathers of the church
- Resource ID: LLS:6.60.101
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:03:27Z