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Author : Apostle Horn
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244270384
Author : Saint Possidius
Publisher : Arx Publishing, LLC
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781889758909
Few figures from antiquity are as well known to us as Augustine of Hippo. Thanks to his Confessions, we know a great deal about Augustine's life prior to his conversion to Christianity. Yet, without this little biography written by his intimate friend Possidius, bishop of Calama, we would know comparatively little about Augustine's life after his baptism. In straight-forward, unadorned prose, Possidius shows Augustine as a powerful intellect, voluminous writer, and compelling orator, willing and able to defend the Church against all comers be they pagans, Donatists, Arians or Manichaeans. But he also presents an Augustine who humbly endured the everyday trials and difficulties of life as a bishop in Roman Africa. He shows a man who ate sparingly, worked tirelessly, despised gossip, shunned the temptations of the flesh, and exercised prudence and frugality in the financial stewardship of his see. Possidius also supplies one of the only first-hand descriptions of the great tragedy of Augustine's life-the Vandalic conquest of Roman Africa. He poignantly describes Augustine's final illness as he lay locked inside Hippo Regius with the barbarian host literally at the city gates. More than simply the biography of a great saint, The Life of Saint Augustine provides a tantalizing glimpse into life in late Roman Africa-a prosperous society on the verge of destruction. This edition of Weiskotten's translation has been completely re-typeset for the modern reader. The text has been amended to include several corrections from an errata sheet that accompanied the original publication. It includes an expanded bibliography, updated citations, and a revised map. (Note: this edition does not include Weiskotten's revised Latin text.)
Author : Possidius,John E. Rotelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0941491099
Few figures from antiquity are as well known to us as Augustine of Hippo. Thanks to his Confessions, we know a great deal about Augustine's life prior to his conversion to Christianity. Yet, without this little biography written by his intimate friend Possidius, bishop of Calama, we would know comparatively little about Augustine's life after his baptism. In straight-forward, unadorned prose, Possidius shows Augustine as a powerful intellect, voluminous writer, and compelling orator, willing and able to defend the Church against all comers be they pagans, Donatists, Arians or Manichaeans. But he also presents an Augustine who humbly endured the everyday trials and difficulties of life as a bishop in Roman Africa. He shows a man who ate sparingly, worked tirelessly, despised gossip, shunned the temptations of the flesh, and exercised prudence and frugality in the financial stewardship of his see. Possidius also supplies one of the only first-hand descriptions of the great tragedy of Augustine's life-the Vandalic conquest of Roman Africa. He poignantly describes Augustine's final illness as he lay locked inside Hippo Regius with the barbarian host literally at the city gates. More than simply the biography of a great saint, The Life of Saint Augustine provides a tantalizing glimpse into life in late Roman Africa-a prosperous society on the verge of destruction. This edition of Weiskotten's translation has been completely re-typeset for the modern reader. The text has been amended to include several corrections from an errata sheet that accompanied the original publication. It includes an expanded bibliography, updated citations, and a revised map. (Note: this edition does not includeWeiskotten's revised Latin text.)
Author : St Possidius of Calama
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1097501043
Few figures from antiquity are as well known to us as Augustine of Hippo. Thanks to his Confessions, we know a great deal about Augustine's life prior to his conversion to Christianity. Yet, without this little biography written by his intimate friend Possidius, bishop of Calama, we would know comparatively little about Augustine s life after his baptism.
Author : Possidius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1437978037
Possidius, who lived in close and harmonious friendship with Augustine for about forty years, described his aim for writing this Life of Saint Augustine: “I must therefore obey the inspiration of God, maker and ruler of all things, and not keep to myself what I know of the life and conduct of that excellent bishop, Augustine, a man predestined and revealed at the proper time. What I have to say is based on what I saw of him and heard from him.” This volume has three sections: (I) The Life and Activity of Augustine: A Chronological Account; (II) Augustine’s Everyday Life; (III) Last Years and Death. It includes a detailed account of Augustine’s ordination as priest. Illustrations.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Fig
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621544142
Author : Erika Hermanowicz
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191528644
Possidius, the bishop of Calama, was a life-long friend of St. Augustine's and best known for writing a biography of the bishop of Hippo, the Vita Augustini. Hermanowicz analyzes both the biography and the legally-oriented career of Possidius to illustrate how active Augustine's colleagues were in soliciting imperial support against their religious competitors and to show just how often Augustine's close friends disagreed with him on important matters of law, coercion and diplomacy. It is still widely asserted by scholars that St. Augustine dominated the theological landscape of North Africa, but this engaging study demonstrates how often he was, in fact, singular and isolated in his beliefs.
Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520280410
This classic biography was first published forty-five years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine cast fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of the Confessions and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in north Africa. Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered). He also reviews the changes in scholarship about Augustine since the 1960s. A personal as well as a scholarly fascination infuse the book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed portrait of the bishop of Hippo.
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813217437
This volume offers a comprehensive portrait--or rather, self-portrait, since its words are mostly Augustine's own--drawn from the breadth of his writings and from the long course of his career
Author : Philip Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : IND:30000097290625
Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520014111
This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : New City Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781565481404
"As the psalms are a microcosm of the Old Testament, so the Expositions of the Psalms can be seen as a microcosm of Augustinian thought. In the Book of Psalms are to be found the history of the people of Israel, the theology and spirituality of the Old Covenant, and a treasury of human experience expressed in prayer and poetry. So too does the work of expounding the psalms recapitulate and focus the experiences of Augustine's personal life, his theological reflections and his pastoral concerns as Bishop of Hippo."--Publisher's website.
Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019348859
Author : Patrick Eugene Moriarty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : IOWA:31858048650091
Author : Augustine
Publisher : Galilee Trade
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1986-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780385232418
The oldest monastic Rule in the West A giant of the faith, St. Augustine is well known as "the restless searcher for truth." His life and the Rule he formulated have had enduring influence on the Christian ideal of the religious life. This is a new, modern English translation of the Rule from the original critical Latin text. An extensive Commentary elucidates its meaning and its relevance to those who follow or study it today. Augustine's concise spiritual directions, based heavily on the Scriptures, cover such subjects as prayer, love and community, mutual responsibility, service, authority and obedience. He outlines the basics for exercising genuine love, the goal of all things -- indeed life itself. This brief but classic guide is as inspiring and applicable to the twentieth century as it was to Augustine's early followers. It clearly reflects his own vision and spiritual depth. As Van Bavel observes in his Introduction: "We could characterize the Rule of Augustine as a call to the evangelical equality of all people. It voices the Christian demand to bring all men and women into full community." The Rule of St. Augustine is, indeed, a Rule for all Christians -- religious and laity alike.
