Ebook {Epub PDF} Select Letters by Augustine of Hippo

This collection’s other work, Select Letters, contains 62 of Augustine’s letters, showing the various troubles of Augustine’s time and how the great bishop dealt with them. Augustine’s Confessions and Select Letters contains the Loeb Classical Library editions of these works. The Loeb editions pair the original Latin with a readable but literal translation/5(22). Selected Letters is a very interesting collection of letters written by st. Augustine. Both the original Latin text on the left and the English translation on the right give the reader a great possibility to have an iteresting point of view to Doctor Gratiaes thought and eg. to the relationship between st. Augusine and another churchfather, st. Jerome/5(8). Select Letters by Augustine of Hippo 19 ratings, average rating, 4 reviews Select Letters Quotes Showing of 2 “Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart?”Author: Augustine of Hippo.

Select letters Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. Select letters by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Baxter, James Houston, Publication date Publisher London: W. Heinemann ; New York: G. P. Putnam's Collection. LETTER 10* Introduction The new letters make us more aware of the activities of Augustine's friend, bishop Alypius of Thagaste, and of his travels in Italy on behalf of the African bishops. In the later stages of the Pelagian conHict and for some time afterward, one by-product of his travels. A Select library of the Nicene and post-Nicene fathers of the Christian church by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo ; John Chrysostom, Saint, d. ; Schaff, Philip,

Select letters Item Preview remove-circle Select letters by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Baxter, James Houston, Publication date Publisher. He died at Hippo during the successful siege by the Vandals. From Augustine's large output the Loeb Classical Library offers that great autobiography the Confessions (in two volumes); On the City of God (seven volumes), which unfolds God's action in the progress of the world's history, and propounds the superiority of Christian beliefs over pagan in adversity; and a selection of Letters which are important for the study of ecclesiastical history and Augustine's relations with other theologians. Even those who disagree with him must still interact with the effects of his thought. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Select Letters contains 62 of Augustine’s letters, showing the various troubles of Augustine’s time and how the great bishop dealt with them. The Loeb editions pair the original Latin with a readable but literal translation.