Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: First Series Volume I - The Confessions and Letters of St. AugustinePhilip Schaff Cosimo, Inc., 2007 M05 1 - 636 pages "The Council of Nicaea in 325 AD marked the beginning of a new era in Christianity. For the first time, doctrines were organized into a single creed. The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers did most of their writing during and after this important event in Church history. Unlike the previous era of Christian writing, the Nicene and Post-Nicene era is dominated by a few very important and prolific writers. In Volume I of the 14-volume collected writings of the Nicenes and Post-Nicenes (first published between 1886 and 1889), readers will discover some of the writings of Saint Augustine, recognized as a great religious figure by many Christian sects. He is the patron of the Augustinian monks, who live their lives according to the values found in Augustines writings. In the Confessions, Augustine speaks honestly about his sins as a youth and the saving grace he discovered when he found God. In the Letters, the true personality of Augustine shines through. He is one of the major theological resources of his time, and so through his correspondences, audiences can see what issues plagued the newly unified Christian religion and come to know the man who helped shape Western religion as we know it." |
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... wisdom, Academic skepticism, and Platonic idealism ; till at last the prayers of his mother, the sermons of Ambrose, the biography of St. Anthony, and, above all, the Epistles, of Paul,. t litritredecim et de math it de Stmts nail Drnrn ...
... wisdom, Academic skepticism, and Platonic idealism ; till at last the prayers of his mother, the sermons of Ambrose, the biography of St. Anthony, and, above all, the Epistles, of Paul,. t litritredecim et de math it de Stmts nail Drnrn ...
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... wisdom of some parts of the Confessions may be doubted.1 The world would never have known Augustin's sins, if he had not told them j nor were they of such a nature as to destroy his respectability in the best heathen society of his age ...
... wisdom of some parts of the Confessions may be doubted.1 The world would never have known Augustin's sins, if he had not told them j nor were they of such a nature as to destroy his respectability in the best heathen society of his age ...
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... wisdom and the way in which it is bound up with the well-being of civil society, that he seems not only to have pleaded the cause of the Christians at his own time, but to have triumphantly refuted the calumnies against Christianity for ...
... wisdom and the way in which it is bound up with the well-being of civil society, that he seems not only to have pleaded the cause of the Christians at his own time, but to have triumphantly refuted the calumnies against Christianity for ...
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... wisdom of God in creating countless millions of beings with the eternal foreknowledge of their everlasting misery ; and it does violence to the sense of individual responsibility for accepting or rejecting the gospel-offer of salvation ...
... wisdom of God in creating countless millions of beings with the eternal foreknowledge of their everlasting misery ; and it does violence to the sense of individual responsibility for accepting or rejecting the gospel-offer of salvation ...
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... Wisdom and the Beginning, 166 Chapter X.— The rashness of those who inquire what God did before He created heaven and earth, . . 167 Chapter XL— They who ask this have not as yet known the eternity of God, which is exempt from the ...
... Wisdom and the Beginning, 166 Chapter X.— The rashness of those who inquire what God did before He created heaven and earth, . . 167 Chapter XL— They who ask this have not as yet known the eternity of God, which is exempt from the ...
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Page 242 - For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty ; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Page 367 - ... for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is a minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Page 239 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 311 - Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Page 270 - Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee : hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity : the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Page 132 - He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. ^(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive : for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) ^Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
Page 343 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. For the kingdom is the LORD'S : and he is the governor among the nations.
Page 256 - Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind, (for he that hath suffered in the flesh, hath ceased from sin,) that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.