Showing 1–30 of 49 Books
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This volume contains: Questions on the Heptateuch, Expressions in the Heptateuch, Notes on Job, and Answer to the Jews.
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The author affirms that beyond the shallow ‘values’ of the everyday world lies true meaning which makes life fulfilling, ecstatic and liberating.
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In this classic work Augustine is engaged in a personal quest; he is ‘looking for God’, and of course inviting his readers to join him in the search.
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The author offers us the chance to taste something of the mysterious silence of Thomas shortly before his death. The beauty of the words in poetic form take us beyond the limitations of words and usher us into the silence where the Word speaks.
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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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Augustine’s responses to conflicts within the North African church remain surprisingly relevant to contemporary crises in Catholicism. His writings contain his mature thought on the nature of the sacraments, the morality of the clergy, and the importance of mercy and charity in maintaining church unity.
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Augustine undertook this greatest piece of writing with the conviction that God wanted him to make this confession. The book in fact is an extended poetic, passionate and intimate prayer. Second Edition includes an annotated bibliography by William Harmless, SJ. VIEW IN PAPERBACK EDITION
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Books 11-22 offer Augustine's Christian view of history, including the Christian view of human destiny. The Index for Books 1-22 is included. VIEW IN PAPERBACK EDITION
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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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The passages contained in this book are the fruit of a life lived in contemplation, prayer, sacrifice and community living. They bring us back to what is essential in the spiritual life.
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Sermons 94A-147A are on the New Testament, primarily the gospels of Luke and John.
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Sermons 51-94 are on the New Testament, primarily the Gospel of Matthew.
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Sermons 341-400 are on Various Themes including our pilgrimage, peace and charity, and the clerical life.
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Sermons 306-340A are on the Saints including Cyprian, Stephen and the Feasts of Martyrs.
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Sermons 273-305A are on the Saints including Peter and Paul, John the Baptist, and St. Lawrence.
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Sermons 230-272B are on the Liturgical Feasts, primarily Easter, the Ascension and Pentecost.
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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 184-229Z are on the Liturgical Seasons, primarily Christmas, Lent and Easter.
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Sermons 148-183 are on the New Testament, primarily the epistles of St. Paul.
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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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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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Some things we only discover at night. During the daytime the stars are hidden, yet they are there. Every kind of pain is like a nightly visitor, who disturbs our peace. The thoughts and meditations in this book are an invitation to know how to receive this visitor whenever he happens to arrive.
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This volume contains three works on the Book of Genesis: On Genesis: A Refutation of the Manichees, Unfinished Literal Commentary on Genesis, and the third and longest, The Literal Meaning of Genesis. VIEW IN PAPERBACK EDITION
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99 words to live by. In these few inspired words, Chiara Lubich expresses clearly the fundamental elements of her spirituality, a spirituality of unity, of communion, which has touched the lives of millions of people in every corner of the world.
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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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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 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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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).
