Letters: Complete in Three Volumes
Letters: Complete in Three Volumes
Augustine consoling, correcting, teaching, and thinking aloud, at closer range than in the treatises.
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About this edition
Across more than forty years, from the months after his conversion to the last days of his life, Augustine wrote letters, and in them the whole of his mind is at work.
This is a collected edition of that correspondence. It gathers the letters preserved in the public domain translations of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 161 letters in all, in the traditional order and numbering, and issues them in three volumes on cream paper, for reading and keeping.
The volumes
His early years as Christian and bishop: the friends of his conversion, Paulinus of Nola, the opening of his long correspondence with Jerome, and the earliest Donatist letters. Paperback and hardcover, 330 pages.
The letters of his maturity, written as Rome fell to the Goths: his counsel to Proba on prayer, and the great letters to Marcellinus and Volusianus. Paperback and hardcover, 300 pages.
The letters of his last years: on grace and the correction of the erring, to Count Boniface and to the nuns of Hippo, and the long letter that carries the Rule of his monastery. Paperback and hardcover, 278 pages.
Details
- Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430), Bishop of Hippo Regius and Doctor of the Church
- Translated by J. G. Cunningham and others, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 1886
- 161 letters in the traditional numbering, complete in three volumes
- Sanctified Souls, Heritage Editions
- Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, cream paper
Cover: Saint Augustine, oil on canvas by Philippe de Champaigne (French, 1602–1674), c. 1645–1650. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Public domain.
