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This volume presents new translations of five of Augustine’s works: The Excellence of Marriage, Holy Virginity, The Excellence of Widowhood, Adulterous Marriages, and Continence. These works discuss marriage, sexuality, procreation, and virginity (or celibacy) and their place in Christian life and salvation. VIEW IN PAPERBACK EDITION
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This volume contains three books: Miscellany of Eighty-Three Questions, Miscellany of Questions in Response to Simplician, and Eight Questions of Dulcitius.
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This volume contains The Sermon on the Mount (De sermone Domini in monte), Agreement Among the Evangelists (De consensu evangelistarum), Questions on the Gospels (Quaestiones evangeliorum), and Seventeen Questions on Matthew (Quaestiones XVII in Matthaeum). VIEW IN PAPERBACK EDITION
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The present volume contains ninety-four letters, the last sixty-three of the previously known letters and the thirty-one more recently discovered and edited by Johannes Divjak in the final quarter of the last century. There are eighty-one letters of which Augustine is the author. Each letter is preceded by its own introduction in which the translator offers valuable information about the persons, content, and background pertinent to the letter.
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The fifty-six letters contained in this volume were, with a few possible exceptions, written between 408 and 414. During these years the Donatist schism came to a head and was in principle healed by the Conference of Carthage in June of 411.
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The first volume of the Letters of Saint Augustine covers the period from his retreat at Cassiciacum in Italy in the fall of 386 (or the spring of 387) to the height of the Donatist controversy in 408 (or 409).
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The sixty-two letters contained in this volume were written between 414 and 422 or 423, though a number of them are virtually impossible to date with any certainty. During these years Augustine became deeply involved in the controversy on grace with Pelagius and his ally, Caelestius, both of whom had passed through North Africa shortly after the fall of Rome.
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Sermons 20-50 are primarily on themes from the Old Testament including Psalms, Ecclesiastes and Proverbs.
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Sermons 51-94 are on the New Testament, primarily the Gospel of Matthew.
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Sermons 94A-147A are on the New Testament, primarily the gospels of Luke and John.
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This work is intended to help preachers present biblical teachings in an effective manner. VIEW IN PAPERBACK EDITION
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This volume of the first 40 homilies are masterpieces not only of theological profundity but also of pastoral engagement. VIEW IN PAPERBACK EDITION
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Sermons 1-19 follow themes inspired from readings in the Old Testament including Genesis, Exodus and the Psalms.
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Sermons 148-183 are on the New Testament, primarily the epistles of St. Paul.
