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Homilies on the First Epistle of John (Works of Saint Augustine)

By Augustine of Hippo

Book information

Publisher
New City Press
Year
2008
ISBN
1565482891, 9781565482890
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
217 kB (221915 bytes)
Series
9781565482890
Edition
paper
Pages
173\0
Time added
2021-02-24 21:29:08

Description

Saint Augustine's ten homilies on the First Epistle of John are among his greatest and most influential works. John and Augustine both develop the same central theme love and in these homilies Augustine uses John's epistle as a point of departure for exploring the meaning and implications of love with his customary profundity, passion and analytic rigor. As with John, a context of dissension and conflict within the Christian community (the Donatist breakaway from Catholic unity), gives his preaching a tone of urgency and poignancy. Anyone who reads these homilies, universally viewed as classics, cannot fail to be moved and challenged both intellectually and emotionally.

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