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Is opgenomen inNicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Volume 01: St. Augustine: Prolegomena, Life and Work, Confessions, Letters door St. Augustine The Complete Ante-Nicene & Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Collection: 3 Series, 37 Volumes, 65 Authors, 1,000 Books, 18,000 Chapters, 16 Million Words door The Church Fathers (indirect) Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers door Philip Schaff (indirect)
The Letters appearing here in translation were written approximately between the years 410 and 420. This period in Augustine's life coincides with the ending of the long controversy with the Donatists and the spread of the Pelagian errors concerning nature and grace. When compared with earlier letters there is more emphasis in these letters on intellectual and doctrinal matters. Perhaps the most important, and certainly the longest in this collection, (pp.141-190) is letter 185 addressed in 417 to the tribune Boniface. It gives a vivid description of the crimes committed by the Donatists against Catholics. Augustine writes: ""Some (Catholics) had their eyes put out; one bishop had his hands and tongue cut off; some were massacred. I say nothing of the inhuman beatings, of the looting of homes in nightly raids, of fires set not only to private homes but even to churches; and into these flames some even cast the sacred books"" (chapter 30). The civil authorities eventually intervened in these disturbances and at times with coercive measures. Finally on January 30, 412 the Emperor Honorius made the profession of Donatism a criminal offense and ordered clerics and ministers of such heretics removed from the African soil which they had polluted by sacreligious rites. Though initially opposed to coercion, Augustine changed his view. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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On Discernment
It's not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
On the Excellency of Christian Love
[Note: The following quote is the seed of the ideas St. Augustine later developed in his masterpiece [book:City of God|25673] ]
Are there any arguments, any philosophers' writings, any legal codes, worth comparing to the two precepts on which Christ says the whole law and the prophets depend: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and all your mind"; and "You shall love your neighbor as yourself"? Here we find physical science, since the causes of all existing things are in God the creator. Here we find ethics, since life is only good and honorable when we love the thing we are to love, namely God and our neighbor, in the right way. Here we find logic, since God alone is the truth and the light of a rational soul. Here, too, we find the welfare and renown of a nation, since no state can be perfectly established and preserved unless it is founded and bound together by faith and a stable union of hearts. This occurs when God, who is the highest and truest common good, is loved; and when all the people love one another sincerely in Him, since they love themselves for the sake of Him from Whom they cannot hide the true character of their love.
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