Category: Augustine

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as “On Baptism, Against the Donatists” was written in response to the Donatists who were teaching various doctrines regarding baptism (and, specifically, related to re-baptism of converts to the Church from heretical groups). Augustine addresses …

Continue reading Augustine (401) – On Baptism, Against the Donatists, Book 7

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as “On Baptism, Against the Donatists” was written in response to the Donatists who were teaching various doctrines regarding baptism (and, specifically, related to re-baptism of converts to the Church from heretical groups). Augustine addresses …

Continue reading Augustine (401) – On Baptism, Against the Donatists, Book 6

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as “On Baptism, Against the Donatists” was written in response to the Donatists who were teaching various doctrines regarding baptism (and, specifically, related to re-baptism of converts to the Church from heretical groups). Augustine addresses …

Continue reading Augustine (401) – On Baptism, Against the Donatists, Book 5

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as Letter 167 (Augustine) or 132 (Jerome) [From Augustine to Jerome, on James 2:10 (A.D. 415)] Augustine thought that a prior letter of his had gotten too long, so he states his purpose for discussing …

Continue reading Augustine (415) – Letter 167 (Augustine) or 132 (Jerome) [From Augustine to Jerome, on James 2:10]

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as From Augustine to Jerome, On the Origin of the Soul (A.D. 415). Augustine prays that what he’s writing will be profitable to both Jerome and himself. Unto our God, who has called us unto …

Continue reading Augustine (415) – From Augustine to Jerome, on the origin of the soul

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as “On Baptism, Against the Donatists” was written in response to the Donatists who were teaching various doctrines regarding baptism (and, specifically, related to re-baptism of converts to the Church from heretical groups). Augustine addresses …

Continue reading Augustine (401) – On Baptism, Against the Donatists, Book 4

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as “On Baptism, Against the Donatists” was written in response to the Donatists who were teaching various doctrines regarding baptism (and, specifically, related to re-baptism of converts to the Church from heretical groups). Augustine addresses …

Continue reading Augustine (401) – On Baptism, Against the Donatists, Book 3

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as “On Baptism, Against the Donatists” was written in response to the Donatists who were teaching various doctrines regarding baptism (and, specifically, related to re-baptism of converts to the Church from heretical groups). Augustine addresses …

Continue reading Augustine (401) – On Baptism, Against the Donatists, Book 2

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as “On Baptism, Against the Donatists” was written in response to the Donatists who were teaching various doctrines regarding baptism (and, specifically, related to re-baptism of converts to the Church from heretical groups). Augustine addresses …

Continue reading Augustine (401) – On Baptism, Against the Donatists, Book 1

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as Of the Good of Widowhood and it is 112 pages long. He begins with an assertion, against Tertullian, that second marriages are not unlawful and that Paul allows them as well. Wherefore this in …

Continue reading Augustine (414) – Of the Good of Widowhood

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as On The Harmony of The Gospels, is an exposition of the 4 Gospels with a purpose of relating their differences and how the differences could be harmonized. It is actually one of his lengthier …

Continue reading Augustine (400) – On The Harmony of The Gospels, Book 4

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as On The Harmony of The Gospels, is an exposition of the 4 Gospels with a purpose of relating their differences and how the differences could be harmonized. It is actually one of his lengthier …

Continue reading Augustine (400) – On The Harmony of The Gospels, Book 3, Part 2

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as On The Harmony of The Gospels, is an exposition of the 4 Gospels with a purpose of relating their differences and how the differences could be harmonized. It is actually one of his lengthier …

Continue reading Augustine (400) – On The Harmony of The Gospels, Book 3, Part 1

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as On the Proceedings of Pelagius, is a short volume at around 42 pages. Below is a brief excerpt from the editor of the translation that I used. This is the second and final part …

Continue reading Augustine (417) – On the Proceedings of Pelagius, Part 2

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as On the Proceedings of Pelagius, is a short volume at around 42 pages. Below is a brief excerpt from the editor of the translation that I used. “Written about the commencement of the year, …

Continue reading Augustine (417) – On the Proceedings of Pelagius, Part 1

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as On Nature and Grace, was a short work at around 50 pages. Extract from Augustine’s Retractions (Book II, Chapter 42): At that time also there came into my hands a certain book of Pelagius’, …

Continue reading Augustine (415) – On Nature and Grace

Augustine worked on his Exposition of the Psalms over the course of 30 years as he preached or taught through them. As I’ve been reading through Augustine’s works and posting highlights from them, I’ll also be slowly posting through his works on the Psalms. While Augustine is typically known for “City of God” being his …

Continue reading Augustine’s Exposition of Psalm 46

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as On The Harmony of The Gospels, is an exposition of the 4 Gospels with a purpose of relating their differences and how the differences could be harmonized. It is actually one of his lengthier …

Continue reading Augustine (400) – On The Harmony of The Gospels, Book 2

Augustine worked on his Exposition of the Psalms over the course of 30 years as he preached or taught through them. As I’ve been reading through Augustine’s works and posting highlights from them, I’ll also be slowly posting through his works on the Psalms. While Augustine is typically known for “City of God” being his …

Continue reading Augustine’s Exposition of Psalm 7

Augustine worked on his Exposition of the Psalms over the course of 30 years as he preached or taught through them. As I’ve been reading through Augustine’s works and posting highlights from them, I’ll also be slowly posting through his works on the Psalms. While Augustine is typically known for “City of God” being his …

Continue reading Augustine’s Exposition of Psalm 6

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as On The Harmony of The Gospels, is an exposition of the 4 Gospels with a purpose of relating their differences and how the differences could be harmonized. It is actually one of his lengthier …

Continue reading Augustine (400) – On The Harmony of The Gospels, Book 1

Augustine worked on his Exposition of the Psalms over the course of 30 years as he preached or taught through them. As I’ve been reading through Augustine’s works and posting highlights from them, I’ll also be slowly posting through his works on the Psalms. While Augustine is typically known for “City of God” being his …

Continue reading Augustine’s Exposition of Psalm 130

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as On the Spirit and the Letter, comes in at around 109 pages. As mentioned in Part 1, he states that he wrote this to discuss Paul’s statement that “The letter kills, but the spirit …

Continue reading Augustine (412) – On the Spirit and the Letter, Part 2 – Covenant Theology and Free Will

Augustine begins by pointing out that it is the Churcn in view in the title of the Psalm The title of the Psalm is, For her who receives the inheritance. The Church then is signified, who receives for her inheritance eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ; that she may possess God Himself, in cleaving …

Continue reading Augustine’s Exposition of Psalm 5

This is the first part (I have no idea when or if I might get around to a second part) of a response to a post by a Coptic Orthodox person named Daniel Michalski regarding Augustine’s “Retractationes” as it relates to Augustine being Orthodox in some respects. The original post was something of what I …

Continue reading In Response to “A Coptic Overview of Saint Augustine’s Retractions” by Daniel Michalski, Part 1 – Augustine the Platonist