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Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is an autobiographical work by Augustine of Hippo, consisting of 13 books written in Latin between AD 397 and 400. [1] The work outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity .
De civitate dei (in Latin) – The Latin Library. The City of God – Dods translation, New Advent. Excerpts only. The City of God public domain audiobook at LibriVox (Dods translation) The City of God – Marcus Dods translation, CCEL; Lewis E 197 Expositio in civitatem dei S. Augustini (Commentary on St. Augustine's City of God) at OPenn ...
Augustine of Hippo (/ ɔː ˈ ɡ ʌ s t ɪ n / aw-GUST-in, US also / ˈ ɔː ɡ ə s t iː n / AW-gə-steen; [22] Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), [23] also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.
Apart from those, Augustine is probably best known for his Confessions, which is a personal account of his earlier life, and for De civitate dei (The City of God, consisting of 22 books), which he wrote to restore the confidence of his fellow Christians, which was badly shaken by the sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410.
The full text of Augsburg Confession at Wikisource The Augsburg Confession (1530) in Latin with a parallel English translation and with notes on the differences in the 1540 edition (Articles I — VII); from Philip Schaff 's Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Full 1530 Text (Princeps), with a parallel English translation and with notes on the differences in the 1540 edition; from Creeds of Christendom Vol 3 Philip Schaff. Hosted by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Full 1540 Text (Variata) in Harmony of the Protestant Confessions. Note that the articles are organized according to topic, not ...
The final section of Book Three is one of Augustine's late additions to the work (with Book Four), consisting of Tyconius's seven rules for interpreting scripture: The Lord and His Body, The Twofold Division of the Body of the Lord, The Promises and the Law (or The Spirit and the Letter), Species and Genus, Times, Recapitulation, and The Devil ...
The meeting between Augustine and Simplican occurred in Milan in 386 and it is recorded in Augustine's Confessions. [4] After his conversion, Augustine also called Simplician father , and in 397 he dedicated to Simplician two books on the issue of predestination , known as De Diversis Quaestionibus ad Simplicianum .