The Confessions/Letters

by Augustine of Hippo, Philip Schaff (Editor)

Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1835 edition. Extrait: ...et voila que lui-meme glisse et roule dans le precipice. Quelques Grecs qui avaient vu la chevre et l'enfant tomber, descendent du monastere et vont tristement chercher les restes du pauvre enfant; mais o surprise! on retrouve au bas du monastere l'animal et son jeune gardien, l'un broutant paisiblement l'herbe, l'autre riant et jouant sur le gazon. La Vierge de Seydnai venait de se signaler par un nouveau miracle. Arnold de Lubek, Mathieu Paris et d'autres auteurs du moyen-age, ont parle de Seydnai qu'ils appellent Sardan, et de l'image merveilleuse conservee dans le monastere; au rapport de ces chroniqueurs, une liqueur semblable a l'huile, et plus douce que le baume, decoulait incessamment de cette image sacree; elle etait recueillie dans un vase de cristal; cette liqueur guerissait les malades et les infirmes. Un auteur raconte qu'un pacha de Damas recouvra la vue en se prosternant avec humilite devant l'autel de la Vierge. Au pied du monastere, a l'est et non point au sud, comme Ta dit Pocoke, on trouve pres d'une grotte trois niches qui offrent chacune deux figures taillees au ciseau dans le roc; ces figures, representant des hommes et des femmes, sont placees deux a deux; les tetes manquent. Au bas du village, on m'a montre une chapelle dediee a saint Pierre, maintenant abandonnee; c'est un edifice carre, bien bati, dont la terrasse reunit souvent de jeunes chretiens armes de longues pipes; a une heure de Seydnai, .au midi, apparaissent les cabanes de Mahhrab-Cham, village chretien...

636 pages, paper

Published May 1, 2007

About the author

Early 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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Reviews

[David Robertson · Rating 5 out of 5]

What can one say? One of the best books ever written in the history of the world. Augustines prose is easy to read - his story is wonderfully told and his philosophical speculations and reflections on life and the Bible, stretch the mind. I have read this book several times and reading it again was so worth it. Tolle, Lege!