The Complete Works of St. Augustine
Confessions, Theology, and the Foundations of Western Christian ThoughtBy Saint Augustine of Hippo
Length461h 23m
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The Complete Works of St. Augustine gathers the writings of one of late antiquity's most influential Christian thinkers, encompassing theological treatises, sermons, letters, biblical expositions, polemical works, and the autobiographical masterpiece Confessions. Across these genres Augustine joins classical rhetoric to Christian doctrine, probing memory, time, desire, sin, grace, language, and the nature of the Church. His prose can be intimate and lyrical, as in Confessions, or rigorously argumentative, as in his anti-Manichaean, anti-Donatist, and anti-Pelagian writings. Read as a whole, the collection illuminates the intellectual and religious transformations of the late Roman world while establishing patterns of introspection, allegorical interpretation, and philosophical theology that shaped medieval and modern Western literature and thought. Augustine (354–430), bishop of Hippo in Roman North Africa, wrote amid the political instability, religious controversy, and cultural inheritance of a collapsing empire. Trained in classical rhetoric and influenced by Platonism, he moved from a youthful pursuit of prestige and competing philosophies toward Catholic Christianity, a conversion decisively narrated in Confessions. His pastoral responsibilities, engagement with Scripture, and sustained debates over human freedom, evil, grace, and ecclesial authority generated an exceptionally diverse body of work. This collection is indispensable for readers seeking the foundations of Christian theology, Western philosophy, and autobiographical literature. It rewards sustained study, yet its emotional candor and searching intelligence make it accessible beyond specialist audiences. Scholars, students, and reflective general readers will find in Augustine both a historical witness and an enduring interlocutor on the deepest questions of human existence.
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Length461 hrs 23 mins
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Publish dateJul 1, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Collected Works of George Rawlinson
2The Complete Works of Saint Augustine
3Preface
4A Sketch of the Life of St. Augustine
5Estimate of St. Augustine
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6The Writings of St. Augustine
7The Influence of St. Augustin upon Posterity, and his Relation to Catholicism and Protestantism
8Chief Events in the Life of St. Augustine
9Early Works
10Two Books of Soliloquies (Soliloquiorum libri duo)
11On the Profit of Believing (De utilitate credendi)
12On Faith and the Creed (De fide et symbolo)
13On Christian Doctrine (De doctrina Christiana)
14Chapter 13.—The Word Was Made Flesh.
15Chapter 22.—God Alone to Be Enjoyed.
16Chapter 27.—The Order of Love.
17Chapter 32.—In What Way God Uses Man.
18Chapter 34.—Christ the First Way to God.
19Chapter 38.—Love Never Faileth.
20Chapter 4.—Origin of Writing.
21Chapter 8.—The Canonical Books.
22Chapter 21.—Superstition of Astrologers.
23Chapter 13.—Same Subject, Continued.
24Chapter 31.—The First Rule of Tichonius.
25Chapter 33.—The Third Rule of Tichonius.
26Chapter 35.—The Fifth Rule of Tichonius.
27Chapter 36.—The Sixth Rule of Tichonius.
28Confessions (Confessiones) (pt. 1)
29Confessions (Confessiones) (pt. 2)
30Confessions (Confessiones) (pt. 3)
31Confessions (Confessiones) (pt. 4)
32Chapter XIX.—He Does Not Yet Fully Understand the Saying of John, that “The Word Was Made Flesh.”
33Chapter VI.—He is Baptized at Milan with Alypius and His Son Adeodatus. The Book “De Magistro.”
34Chapter XIII.—Memory Retains All Things.
35Chapter XIX.—What It is to Remember.
36Chapter IX.—Wisdom and the Beginning.
37Chapter XXI.—How Time May Be Measured.
38Chapter XXX.—Again He Refutes the Empty Question, “What Did God Before the Creation of the World?”
39Chapter XXI.—Of the Explanation of the Words, “The Earth Was Invisible.”
40Chapter XXII.—He Discusses Whether Matter Was from Eternity, or Was Made by God.1140
41Chapter XXIX.—Concerning the Opinion of Those Who Explain It “At First He Made.”
42On the Catechising of the Uninstructed (De catechizandis rudibus) (pt. 1)
43On the Catechising of the Uninstructed (De catechizandis rudibus) (pt. 2)
44On the Trinity (De trinitate) (pt. 1)
45On the Trinity (De trinitate) (pt. 2)
46Chapter 8.—The Entire Trinity Invisible.
47Chapter 11.—Of the Same Appearance.
48Chapter 13.—The Appearance in the Bush.
49Chapter 18.—The Vision of Daniel.
50Chapter 1.—What is to Be Said Thereupon.
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