Npnf1-01 the Confessions and Letters of St Augustin, With a Sketch of His Life and Work

By Schaff, Philip

Excerpt
Excerpt: Preface; Encouraged by the assured co-operation of competent Patristic scholars of Great Britain and the United States, I have undertaken the general editorship of a Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church. It is to embrace in about twenty-five large volumes the most important works of the Greek Fathers from Eusebius to Photius, and of the Latin Fathers from Ambrose to Gregory the Great. The series opens with St. Augustin, the greatest and most influential of all the Christian Fathers. Protestants and Catholics are equally interested in his writings, and most of all in his Confessions, which are contained in this volume. They will be followed by the works of St. Chrysostom, and the Church History of Eusebius.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: About This Book, ii -- Title Page, 1 -- Preface, 2 -- Table of Contents, 4 -- Prolegomena: St. Augustin?s Life and Work, 5 -- Literature, 5 -- Sources, 5 -- Biographies, 6 -- Special Treatises on the System of Augustin, 7 -- A Sketch of the Life of St. Augustin, 8 -- Estimate of St. Augustin, 12 -- The Writings of St. Augustin, 17 - 27 -- The Influence of St. Augustin on Posterity, and His Relation to Catholicism -- and Protestantism, -- Chief Events in the Life of St. Augustin, 35 -- The Confessions, 37 -- Translator?s Preface, 37 -- The Opinion of St. Augustin Concerning His Confessions, 43 - 44 -- Commencing with the invocation of God, Augustin relates in detail the -- beginning of his life, his infancy and boyhood, up to his fifteenth year; at -- which age he acknowledges that he was more inclined to all youthful -- pleasures and vices than to the study of letters, 45 -- He Proclaims the Greatness of God, Whom He Desires to Seek and -- Invoke, Being Awakened by Him, -- That the God Whom We Invoke is in Us, and We in Him, 46 - 46 -- Everywhere God Wholly Filleth All Things, But Neither Heaven Nor Earth -- Containeth Him, -- The Majesty of God is Supreme, and His Virtues Inexplicable, 47 -- He Seeks Rest in God, and Pardon of His Sins, 47 - 48 -- He Describes His Infancy, and Lauds the Protection and Eternal -- Providence of God, -- He Shows by Example that Even Infancy is Prone to Sin, 50 - 51 -- That When a Boy He Learned to Speak, Not by Any Set Method, But -- from the Acts and Words of His Parents, ,

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Npnf1-01 the Confessions and Letters of St Augustin, With a Sketch of His Life and Work

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Schaff, Philip

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Religion, Christian literature, Christian theology

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Christian Classics Ethereal Library

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