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NPNF1-01. The Confessions and Letters ofSt. Augustin, with a Sketch of his Life andWork
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Philip Schaff 
 
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NPNF1-01. The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustin, with a Sketch of his Life and Work 
NPNF1-01. The Confessions and Letters of St. Augustin, with a Sketchof his Life and Work
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http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf101.html
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Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
Author(s):
Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Publisher:
New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886
Print Basis:
Logos Research Systems, Inc.
Source:
ecf
Series:
Public Domain
Rights:
This volume has been carefully proofread and corrected.
Status:
Greek & Hebrew spans proofed by SLK and conform to the print basis(even where this is in error)
General Comments:
All; Proofed;Early Church;Classic;
CCEL Subjects:
BR60
LC Call no:
Christianity
LC Subjects:
Early Christian Literature. Fathers of the Church, etc.
 
Table of Contents
p. ii
About This Book ......................................
p. 1Title Page..........................................p. 2Preface............................................p. 4Contents...........................................p. 5Prolegomena: St. Augustin’s Life and Work....................p. 5Literature..........................................p. 5Sources.........................................p. 6Biographies.......................................p. 7Special Treatises on the System of Augustin.................p. 8A Sketch of the Life of St. Augustin.........................p. 12Estimate of St. Augustin................................p. 17The Writings of St. Augustin.............................p. 27The Influence of St. Augustin on Posterity, and His Relation to Catholicismand Protestantism....................................p. 35Chief Events in the Life of St. Augustin.......................p. 37The Confessions......................................p. 37Translator’s Preface...................................p. 43The Opinion of St. Augustin Concerning His Confessions..........p. 44Commencing with the invocation of God, Augustin relates in detail thebeginning of his life, his infancy and boyhood, up to his fifteenth year; atwhich age he acknowledges that he was more inclined to all youthfulpleasures and vices than to the study of letters..................p. 45He Proclaims the Greatness of God, Whom He Desires to Seek andInvoke, Being Awakened by Him..........................p. 45That the God Whom We Invoke is in Us, and We in Him..........p. 46Everywhere God Wholly Filleth All Things, But Neither Heaven Nor EarthContaineth Him.....................................p. 46The Majesty of God is Supreme, and His Virtues Inexplicable.......p. 47He Seeks Rest in God, and Pardon of His Sins................p. 48He Describes His Infancy, and Lauds the Protection and EternalProvidence of God...................................p. 50He Shows by Example that Even Infancy is Prone to Sin..........p. 51That When a Boy He Learned to Speak, Not by Any Set Method, Butfrom the Acts and Words of His Parents.....................
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