The Monastic Rules: 4 (Works of Saint Augustine) - Softcover

Augustine, Edmund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565481305 ISBN 13: 9781565481305

Publisher: New City Press, 2004

Synopsis

The four documents that make up the Rule of Saint Augustine with two introductory essays

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Review:

"Gerald Bonner is a great interpreter of Augustine's religious life and views, and his essay situating these writings within the context of Augustine's life and works is clear and well-presented, and deftly summarizes the history of the research on the authenticity and the order of these works."

About the Author:

Saint Augustine was one of those towering figures who so dominated his age that the age itself bears his name. The Age of Augustine was a time of transition, and Augustine was a genius of such stature that, according to Christopher Dawson, "he was, to a far greater degree than any emperor or general or barbarian warlord, a maker of history and a builder of the bridge which was to lead him from the old world to the new." He was the ablest religious thinker and controversialist at a period when theological controversy reached a level of intellectual refinement never achieved before or since. He was a tireless preacher and he wrote 118 treatises, including the most famous spiritual autobiography of all time, The Confessions. Of all these works, the one most prized by Augustine was his City of God, a veritable encyclopedia of information on the lives, thoughts and aspirations of ancient and early Christian man.

About this edition

• Publisher: New City Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1565481305
• ISBN 13: 9781565481305
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 173