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Popular author and philosopher Peter Kreeft delves into one of the most beloved Christian classics of all time–Augustine’s Confessions. He collects key passages and offers incisive commentary, making Confessions accessible to any reader who is both intellectually curious and spiritually hungry. The Confessions is a dramatic personal narrative of a soul choosing between eternal life and death, an exploration of the timeless questions great minds have been asking for millennia, …

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Augustine’s City of God: A Reader’s Guide Gerard O’Daly The City of God is the most influential of Augustine’s works which played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West. It’s scope embodies cosmology, psychology, political thought, anti-pagan polemic, Christian apologetic, theory of history, biblical interpretation and apocalyptic themes. This book is the first comprehensive modern guide to City of God in any language.

On Augustine Rowan Williams Since his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury and his return to academic life (Master of Magdalene College Cambridge) Rowan Williams has demonstrated a massive new surge of intellectual energy. In this new book he turns his attention to St Augustine. St Augustine not only shaped the development of Western theology, he also made a major contribution to political theory (City of God) and through his Confessions to the …

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Augustine: Conversions to Confessions  Robin Lane Fox Saint Augustine is one of the most influential figures in all of Christianity, yet his path to sainthood was by no means assured. Born in AD 354 to a pagan father and a Christian mother, Augustine spent the first thirty years of his life struggling to understand the nature of God and his world. He learned about Christianity as a child but was …

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On Christian Teaching St Augustine The De Doctrina Christiana (“On Christian Teaching”) is one of Augustine’s most important works on the classical tradition. Undertaken at the same time as the Confessions, it sheds light on the development of Augustine’s thought, especially in the areas of ethics, hermeneutics, and sign-theory. This completely new translation gives a close but updated representation of Augustine’s thought and expression, while a succinct introduction and select bibliography present the …

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  Ktieb interessanti u b’ħarsa wkoll differenti lejn il-lajċi, u li jista’ jkunu ta’ ispirazzjoni għal Ġublew tal-Ħniena huwa l-ktieb ta’ Joseph Carola, Ġiswita, li kiteb fuq Augustine of Hippo: The Role of the Laity in ecclesial Reconcilation. Huwa ktieb ippublikat fl-2005, wara li Carola ddefenda t-teżi dottorali tiegħu fl-Augustinianum fl-2001. Dan l-istudju, l-ewwel wieħed tat-tip tiegħu, juri kif Santu Wistin fehem il-lajċi nsara ukoll fil-qsim tal-qawwa li torbot u …

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