Saint Augustine: The Happy Life and Answer to Skeptics and Divine Providence and the Problem of Evil and Soliloquies
Overview
This volume contains multiple short works of Augustine’s, exploring the theology, philosophy, and aescetics throughout his life.
For The Fathers of the Church series in its entirety, see Fathers of the Church Series (127 vols.).
- Quality translation of Augustine’s writings on various subjects for modern scholarship
- The philosophical records of Augustine, a giant of the Christian faith
- One of 127 published volumes in a well-respected series on the Church Fathers
Top Highlights
“O God, ever the same; may I know myself, may I know Thee. That is my prayer.” (Page 381)
“The chief cause of this error is that man does not know himself.” (Page 241)
“The man without faith is prudent in his own folly.’” (Page 75)
“These things of sense must be forsaken entirely,1 and, as long as we bear this body, we must have care lest our wings be entangled by their sticky lime, as we need whole and faultless wings to fly from this darkness to that light.” (Page 375)
“‘And now the day had come when I was actually released from my professorship of rhetoric, from which I had already been freed in my mind. Thou deliverest my tongue from that from which Thou hadst delivered before my heart.” (Page 30)
- Title: Saint Augustine: The Happy Life and Answer to Skeptics and Divine Providence and the Problem of Evil and Soliloquies
- Author: Augustine of Hippo
- Series: The Fathers of the Church
- Volume: 5
- Publisher: CIMA
- Print Publication Date: 1948
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 450
- Era: era:nicene
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
- ISBNs: 9780813215518, 9780813211053, 081321551X, 0813211050
- Resource ID: LLS:HPPYLFNSWRSCPTC
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:00:46Z