Saint Augustine of Hippo
c. 354 – 430 · Post-Nicene Latin Fathers · Latin (North Africa)
Bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa; the most influential theologian of the Latin West. Author of the Confessions (the first sustained spiritual autobiography in Christian literature), the City of God (the foundational Latin theology of history), On the Trinity, the exegetical Tractates on John, hundreds of letters, and the polemical works against the Manichaeans, Donatists, and Pelagians. Venerated as a saint in the Orthodox Church (commemorated 15 June). His Augustinian theology of original sin, predestination, and the procession of the Holy Spirit developed in directions the East did not follow; later Western controversies (Pelagian, Filioque, Reformation soteriology) are intelligible only against the background of his speculative works. His pastoral and exegetical writings are widely esteemed without qualification.
Works in the library · 18
- Anti-Donatist Writingstreatise
- Anti-Manichaean Writingstreatise
- Doctrinal Treatises (On the Trinity, Enchiridion, On the Catechizing of the Uninstructed, On Faith and the Creed, etc.)treatise
- Expositions on the Book of Psalms (Enarrationes in Psalmos)homily
- Harmony of the Gospelstreatise
- Letters of St Augustineletter
- Moral Treatisestreatise
- On Christian Doctrine (De Doctrina Christiana)treatise
- On Nature and Gracetreatise
- On the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infantstreatise
- On the Spirit and the Lettertreatise
- Our Lord's Sermon on the Mounthomily
- Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testamenthomily
- Soliloquiestreatise
- Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of Johnhomily
- The City of God (De Civitate Dei)treatise
- The Confessionstreatise
- Tractates on the Gospel of Johnhomily
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