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... please , if you at least know what a line is in geometry . 1 In his Confessions ( 7.10,20 ) , Augustine testifies to the influence of the thought of Plato upon his own . He also describes the insufficiency of that thought for one who ...
Commentary on the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount with Seventeen Related Sermons
... harvest be plentiful . You have joined with us in listening to the words which Christ our Lord spoke to his disciples when they had drawn near to Him : ' And opening his mouth he taught them , saying : " Blessed are the poor in spirit ...
Most of Augustine's Confessions are spent in a nearly catastrophe tug of war. From insult and injury to passion, lost love, and the arts--this work leads through and beyond a world where God's timing is absolutely perfect.
50 Christian Books: Scripture, History, Theology, Spirituality and Fiction
... Vst Vs.1271 Diocletian was the last of the persecuting emperors (d. 313). So Bossuet. To his worthless guess the Huguenots opposed the name of the "grand monarch" and persecutor of Protestants, Louis XIV., which yields the same result ...
50 Christan Books - Scripture, Theology, Philosophy and Spirituality (Including Christian Novels)
... ( R.C. ) : Historia theologico - critica de vita , scriptis et doctrina SS . Patrum trium primorum saeculorum . Aug. Vind . 1783 – '99 , 13 t . 8 ° . A .. Möhler ( R.C. d . 1838 ) : Patrologie , oder christliche Literärgeschichte . Edited ...
50 Christan Books - Scripture, Theology, Philosophy and Spirituality (Including Christian Novels)
... Vst Vs.1271 Diocletian was the last of the persecuting emperors (d. 313). So Bossuet. To his worthless guess the Huguenots opposed the name of the "grand monarch" and persecutor of Protestants, Louis XIV., which yields the same result ...
The Battles of Wisdom and Humility: Literary Institutions of Christian Religion: The Age of Reason, As a Man Thinketh, The Holy Spirit...
... Supreme Wisdom? Do you think we can grow into that higher and happier state of mind without knowledge of the laws by which only it can be attained? As well expect to sail a ship around the world without knowledge of seamanship or ...
Harvard Classics - Complete Collection of the Greatest Works of World Literature
... a sensuous man than by making him first aesthetic. But, you might object: Is this mediation absolutely indispensable? Could not truth and duty, one or the other, in themselves and by themselves, find access to the sensuous man? To this ...
The Complete Harvard Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature: All 71 Volumes - The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction
... a sensuous man than by making him first aesthetic. But, you might object: Is this mediation absolutely indispensable? Could not truth and duty, one or the other, in themselves and by themselves, find access to the sensuous man? To this ...
Harvard on the Beach: The Complete 71 Volumes of Harvard Classics (The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction): The Infamous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature
... a sensuous man than by making him first aesthetic. But, you might object: Is this mediation absolutely indispensable? Could not truth and duty, one or the other, in themselves and by themselves, find access to the sensuous man? To this ...
Harvard Classics Anthology - Complete 51 Volumes: The Greatest Works of World Literature - Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf
... a sensuous man than by making him first aesthetic. But, you might object: Is this mediation absolutely indispensable? Could not truth and duty, one or the other, in themselves and by themselves, find access to the sensuous man? To this ...
The Complete Harvard Classics - All 51 Volumes in One Edition: The Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature - Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf
... a sensuous man than by making him first aesthetic. But, you might object: Is this mediation absolutely indispensable? Could not truth and duty, one or the other, in themselves and by themselves, find access to the sensuous man? To this ...
... bore him, and bathes him in lukewarm water, and anoints him all over with ... chamber where he finds the tables set out in such style that he is filled ... dauntless, gentle, patient, and have learned to bear hardships, imprisonments, and ...
The Harvard Classics Shelf: All 51 Volumes of Essential Classics + 20 Volumes of the Greatest Works of Fiction
... a sensuous man than by making him first aesthetic. But, you might object: Is this mediation absolutely indispensable? Could not truth and duty, one or the other, in themselves and by themselves, find access to the sensuous man? To this ...
The Complete Harvard Classics Shelf: 51 Volumes of Essential Classics + 20 Volumes of the Greatest Works of Fiction
... a sensuous man than by making him first aesthetic. But, you might object: Is this mediation absolutely indispensable? Could not truth and duty, one or the other, in themselves and by themselves, find access to the sensuous man? To this ...
Harvard's Classics Collection: Complete 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction - The Classic Literature & The Greatest Works of Fiction from Antics to Modern Age
... a sensuous man than by making him first aesthetic. But, you might object: Is this mediation absolutely indispensable? Could not truth and duty, one or the other, in themselves and by themselves, find access to the sensuous man? To this ...
Essential Expositions of the Psalms: Classroom Resource Edition
... power to free you from constraints would not have heard your plea unless you had first humbled yourself, as that man humbled himself who cried, Who will deliver me from this deathridden body, wretch that I am? But the Jews were not ...
... power to free you from constraints would not have heard your plea unless you had first humbled yourself, as that man humbled himself who cried, Who will deliver me from this death-ridden body, wretch that I am? But the Jews were not ...
The Works of Saint Augustine: v. 1. Sermons on the Old Testament, 20-50
... descendants of Abraham , as explained by the apostle Paul : In your descendants shall all the nations be blessed . He did not say , in descendants , as though in many ; but as in one , and your posterity , which is Christ ( Gal 3 : 8.16 ) ...
... Book VIII offered a brief review of Greek philosophy, with particular focus on Platonism and its central doctrine of God as creator of the world and of all within it. On this basis Augustine argued that Platonism rises superior to other ...
... Saturn , say they , is length of time . There- fore they who worship Saturn worship Time ; and it is insinu- ated that Jupiter , the king of the gods , was born of Time . For is anything unworthy said when Jupiter and Juno are said to ...
Harvard on the Beach: The Complete 71 Volumes of Harvard Classics (The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction): The Infamous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature
... Tutola), advised them to do neither, but, by a stratagem, avoid both fighting and the giving up of such pledges. The stratagem was this, that they should send herself, with other well-looking servant-maids, to the enemy, in the dress of ...
Expositions on the Book of Psalms ... Translated, with Notes and Indices [by J. Tweed, T. Scratton, H. M. Wilkins and Others].
... 15. Ver . 7. He made His ways known unto Moses . What ways of His hath He ... master , He is a seducer : He disturbed the water , that is , the people ... step toward man's healing .
The Retractions (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 60)
... its own sake , most pure and perfect love if nothing else is loved . " 12 But if this is true , in what sense did ... its own sake since the flesh , in truth , is loved , not for its own sake , but because of the soul which suffices for its ...
The Works of Aurelius Augustine: A New Translation
... one flesh " ? Whilst Scripture , in the Book of Genesis , was speaking of Adam and Eve , it came to these words , " Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother , and shall cleave to his wife ; and they two shall be one flesh . " 1 ...
... master , He is a seducer : He disturbed the water , that is , the people ; and in the whole of that disturbance of the water one was healed , because in the Lord's Passion unity is healed . He who shall be without 2-4 . Oxf . Mss . and ...
Henry Chadwick, an eminent scholar of early Christianity, has given us the first new English translation in thirty years of Augustine's The Confessions.
In this new translation by Henry Chadwick of what can only be considered a masterpiece of Western literature, the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life and search for spiritual satisfaction are ...
The Confessions: With an Introduction and Contemporary Criticism
Presents an English translation of Saint Augustine's "Confessions" in which the fourth-century bishop reflects on his faith and reveals his sins
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