St. Augustine, Aspects of His Life and Thought
Author : William Montgomery
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 1914
Category :
ISBN :
Augustine in His Own Words
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0813217431
Book Description
This volume offers a comprehensive portrait--or rather, self-portrait, since its words are mostly Augustine's own--drawn from the breadth of his writings and from the long course of his career
Retrieving Augustine's Doctrine of Creation
Author : Gavin Ortlund
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830853251
Book Description
How might premodern exegesis of Genesis inform Christian debates about creation today? Pastor and theologian Gavin Ortlund retrieves Augustine's reading of Genesis 1-3 and considers how his premodern understanding of creation can help Christians today, shedding light on matters such as evolution, animal death, and the historical Adam and Eve.
On the Trinity
Author : Saint Augustine of Hippo
Publisher : Aeterna Press
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release :
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Book Description
The following dissertation concerning the Trinity, as the reader ought to be informed, has been written in order to guard against the sophistries of those who disdain to begin with faith, and are deceived by a crude and perverse love of reason. Now one class of such men endeavor to transfer to things incorporeal and spiritual the ideas they have formed, whether through experience of the bodily senses, or by natural human wit and diligent quickness, or by the aid of art, from things corporeal; so as to seek to measure and conceive of the former by the latter. Aeterna Press
On the Road with Saint Augustine
Author : James K. A. Smith
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 149341996X
Book Description
★ Publishers Weekly starred review One of the Top 100 Books and One of the 5 Best Books in Religion for 2019, Publishers Weekly Christianity Today 2020 Book Award Winner (Spiritual Formation) Outreach 2020 Resource of the Year (Spiritual Growth) Foreword INDIES 2019 Honorable Mention for Religion This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker knows far more about us than we might expect. Following Smith's successful You Are What You Love, this book shows how Augustine can be a pilgrim guide to a spirituality that meets the complicated world we live in. Augustine, says Smith, is the patron saint of restless hearts--a guide who has been there, asked our questions, and knows our frustrations and failed pursuits. Augustine spent a lifetime searching for his heart's true home and he can help us find our way. "What makes Augustine a guide worth considering," says Smith, "is that he knows where home is, where rest can be found, what peace feels like, even if it is sometimes ephemeral and elusive along the way." Addressing believers and skeptics alike, this book shows how Augustine's timeless wisdom speaks to the worries and struggles of contemporary life, covering topics such as ambition, sex, friendship, freedom, parenthood, and death. As Smith vividly and colorfully brings Augustine to life for 21st-century readers, he also offers a fresh articulation of Christianity that speaks to our deepest hungers, fears, and hopes.
Augustine of Hippo
Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520280415
Book Description
This classic biography was first published forty-five years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine cast fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of the Confessions and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in north Africa. Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered). He also reviews the changes in scholarship about Augustine since the 1960s. A personal as well as a scholarly fascination infuse the book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed portrait of the bishop of Hippo.
The Retractions (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 60)
Author : Saint Augustine
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,33 MB
Release : 2010-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0813211603
Book Description
No description available
Faith and Humility
Author : Jonathan L. Kvanvig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198809484
Book Description
This book is devoted to articulating the connections between the nature and value of faith and humility. The goal is to understand faith and humility in a way that does not discriminate between religious and mundane contexts, between sacred and secular. It arises from a conviction that these two character traits are important to a flourishing life, and intimately related to each other in such a way that the presence of one demands the presence of the other. In particular, the book defends the claim that each of these virtues provides a necessary, compensating balance to the potential downside of the other virtue. The result of such an inquiry, if that inquiry is successful, will require a re-orienting of discussions surrounding faith, including debates about the relationship between faith and reason.
Happiness and Wisdom
Author : Ryan N. S. Topping
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813219736
Book Description
Happiness and Wisdom contributes to ongoing debates about the nature of Augustine's early development, and argues that Augustine's vision of the soul's ascent through the liberal arts is an attractive and basically coherent view of learning, which, while not wholly novel, surpasses both classical and earlier patristic renderings of the aims of education.
God and Philosophy
Author : Etienne Gilson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300092998
Book Description
In this classic work, the eminent Catholic philosopher Étienne Gilson deals with one of the most important and perplexing metaphysical problems: the relation between our notion of God and demonstrations of his existence. Gilson examines Greek, Christian, and modern philosophy as well as the thinking that has grown out of our age of science in this fundamental analysis of the problem of God. "[I] commend to another generation of seekers and students this deeply earnest and yet wistfully gentle little essay on the most important (and often, at least nowadays, the most neglected) of all metaphysical--and existential--questions. . . . The historical sweep is breathtaking, the one-liners arresting, and the style, both intellectual and literary, altogether engaging." --Jaroslav Pelikan, from the foreword "We have come to expect from the pen of M. Gilson not only an accurate exposition of the thought of the great philosophers, ancient and modern, but what is of much more importance and of greater interest, a keen and sympathetic insight into the reasons for that thought. The present volume does not fail to fulfill our expectations. It should be read by every Christian thinker." --Ralph O. Dates, America
