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St. Augustine: Sermon on the Mount, Harmony of the Gospels, Homilies on the Gospels, Volume VI
This volume contains the exegetical and homiletical writings of St. Augustine on the Gospels. The seventh volume will be devoted to his Commentary on the Gospel and First Epistle of John, and the Soliloquies.
- GenresTheology
580 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1925
About the author
Augustine of Hippo
3,296 books2,107 followersEarly church father and philosopher Saint Augustine served from 396 as the bishop of Hippo in present-day Algeria and through such writings as the autobiographical
Confessions
in 397 and the voluminous
City of God
from 413 to 426 profoundly influenced Christianity, argued against Manichaeism and Donatism, and helped to establish the doctrine of original sin.
An Augustinian follows the principles and doctrines of Saint Augustine.
People also know Aurelius Augustinus in English of Regius (Annaba). From the Africa province of the Roman Empire, people generally consider this Latin theologian of the greatest thinkers of all times. He very developed the west. According to Jerome, a contemporary, Augustine renewed "the ancient Faith."
The Neo-Platonism of Plotinus afterward heavily weighed his years. After conversion and his baptism in 387, Augustine developed his own approach to theology and accommodated a variety of methods and different perspectives. He believed in the indispensable grace to human freedom and framed the concept of just war. When the Western Roman Empire started to disintegrate from the material earth, Augustine developed the concept of the distinct Catholic spirituality in a book of the same name. He thought the medieval worldview. Augustine closely identified with the community that worshiped the Trinity. The Catholics and the Anglican communion revere this preeminent doctor. Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider his due teaching on salvation and divine grace of the theology of the Reformation. The Eastern Orthodox also consider him. He carries the additional title of blessed. The Orthodox call him "Blessed Augustine" or "Saint Augustine the Blessed."
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An Augustinian follows the principles and doctrines of Saint Augustine.
People also know Aurelius Augustinus in English of Regius (Annaba). From the Africa province of the Roman Empire, people generally consider this Latin theologian of the greatest thinkers of all times. He very developed the west. According to Jerome, a contemporary, Augustine renewed "the ancient Faith."
The Neo-Platonism of Plotinus afterward heavily weighed his years. After conversion and his baptism in 387, Augustine developed his own approach to theology and accommodated a variety of methods and different perspectives. He believed in the indispensable grace to human freedom and framed the concept of just war. When the Western Roman Empire started to disintegrate from the material earth, Augustine developed the concept of the distinct Catholic spirituality in a book of the same name. He thought the medieval worldview. Augustine closely identified with the community that worshiped the Trinity. The Catholics and the Anglican communion revere this preeminent doctor. Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider his due teaching on salvation and divine grace of the theology of the Reformation. The Eastern Orthodox also consider him. He carries the additional title of blessed. The Orthodox call him "Blessed Augustine" or "Saint Augustine the Blessed."
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July 5, 2018
Augustine's treatment of the Sermon on the Mount was edifying, but not the first place to go for an exposition of that passage.
His harmonizing was helpful, done in a reverent and confident spirit, with a couple unique resolutions to proposed contradictions, but it has been superseded. His tendency to say "it must have happened twice" about nearly everything became special pleading through overuse.
Augustine's sermons are warm and direct, faithful to the text, and careful in expression. It's easy to see why his people loved him. When he's in his allegorical mode of interpretation, his comments are often illuminating, but sometimes obscurative, especially when they are merely hinted at rather than implied by the text.
His harmonizing was helpful, done in a reverent and confident spirit, with a couple unique resolutions to proposed contradictions, but it has been superseded. His tendency to say "it must have happened twice" about nearly everything became special pleading through overuse.
Augustine's sermons are warm and direct, faithful to the text, and careful in expression. It's easy to see why his people loved him. When he's in his allegorical mode of interpretation, his comments are often illuminating, but sometimes obscurative, especially when they are merely hinted at rather than implied by the text.
April 27, 2015
I come once again to those books where I am not nearly qualified to review nor spend enough time in detailed reading to review. These free PDFs available online and are excellent resources for those interested in the church fathers and definitely an excellent resource for those studying anything to do with the period. These few words will have to suffice.
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