John W Rettig (40 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Support Small Business by buying this book! HARDBACK (ISBN: 081320092X) Previous owner's name on inside front cover. No marks noted in text. Binding is tight and square. Gently read. . . . . . . . . In this volume, which concludes John W. Rettig's translation of St. Augustine's Tractates on the Gospel of John, Augustine applies his keen insight and powers of rhetoric to the sacred text, drawing the audience into an intimate contemplation of Jesus through the course of his Passion, Death, and Resurrection. Augustine clarifies the meaning of words and phrases (often appealing to the Greek text), resolves obscurities, and reconciles apparent contradictions. He explains the Scriptures on several levels of meaning and draws from them practical implications for the Christian life. Always evident in his teaching and exhortation is his strong desire to lead souls to a knowledge and love of God. Because the scriptural readings for holy Week and the Octave of Easter were fixed to some extent, during the Easter Octave in A.D. 407 Augustine had to interrupt his exposition of John's Gospel after delivering the twelfth tractate. In order to maintain some continuity, he decided to preach upon the First Epistle of John. Its central theme, which Augustine saw to be caritas (Christian love), was especially appropriate at this time, for the Donatist schism had torn many away from the Church at Hippo. In the ten tractates on the First Epistle of John, Augustine develops an outline of his theology on love and explains its implications for the Mystical Body of Christ. He teaches that those who hate the members of Christ cannot truly love Christeven if they profess otherwise, even if they were to lay down their lives for Him. In these tractates Augustine once again reveals himself as the humble and zealous pastor of souls. His words seem to radiate the very love about which he speaks, so that few of his listeners could accuse him of preaching what he himself did not practice.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Support Small Business by buying this book! 1993 Printiing - Previous owner's name on inside front cover. No marks noted in text. Binding is tight and square. Gently read. There is a small tear a little less than an inch long at the bottom left of the dust jacket, which is otherwise in very good condition. This hardcover edition is OUT OF PRINT currently, and CUA is only printing these in paperback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In Christian Latinity, the tractate is a specific type of sermon, delivered as part of a liturgy, which combines scriptural exegesis, preaching, spiritual commentary, and theological reflection. This volume contains tractates 28-54 of the 124 tractates on the Gospel of John delivered by St. Augustine, the world-renowned fourth-century bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa. As sermons they exemplify the theory of preaching he outlined in his De doctrina Christiana (On Christian Instruction) - to preach in a simple and direct style accessible to all without compromising the theological knowledge and spiritual experience of the message.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Slight shelf wear to the spine edges and corners. The dust jacket has some wear to the edges. ; 5.5 X 1.25 X 8.5 inches; 326 pages.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Light wear to the binding. The dust jacket has some wear to the edges.; Fathers Of The Church; 5.75 X 1 X 8.5 inches; 301 pages.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 236 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9780813200880.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. ISBN: 9780813200798, unread, slight foxing and shelf wear, The Fathers of the Church, 79.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good+. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Catholic Univ of Amer Pr, Washington, DC 1988. 306 pages. Nice Firm copy ! Text pages have underlining and notes. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Religion::Catholic Religion::Christian Pre-1910 0425.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In Christian Latinity, the tractate is a specific type of sermon, delivered as part of a liturgy, which combines scriptural exegesis, preaching, spiritual commentary, and theological reflection. This volume contains the first ten of the 124 tractates on the Gospel of John delivered by St. Augustine, the world-renowned fourth-century bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa. As sermons they exemplify the theory of preaching he outlined in his De doctrina Christiana (On Christian Instruction) --to preach in a simple and direct style accessible to all without compromising the theological knowledge and spiritual experience of the message. Because John's Gospel particularly emphasized the divinity of Jesus, the identity of the historical Jesus with the Messianic Christ, the Trinitarian Word, these sermons necessarily involve much Trinitarian and Christological theology. They explain and defend the orthodox position established at the councils of Nicea (A.D. 325) and Constantinople (A.D. 381). Their major theme is that Jesus Christ is the center of the Christian life, the Son of God and the Son of Man. Beyond contemplation of John's Gospel, the Tractates reveal much about the heresies to which Augustine's congregation was exposed: Manichaeism, with its dualistic logic; Donatism, a schismatic, puritanical, and sacramental movement which involved the intervention of the state in the affairs of the Church; and Pelagianism, with its doctrines of original sin, grace, free will, and predestination. Augustine delivered these sermons in Ciceronian oratorical style, having as his purpose to teach, to please, and to persuade. Through his allegorical exegesis, his audience was led to an understanding of the meaning of Scripture that would so affect their souls as to help them grow spiritually and bring them to eternal salvation.…

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