Homilies on the First Epistle of John (The Works of Saint Augustine, a Translation for the 21st Century: Part 3 - Sermons (homilies))

by SaintAugustine (Author), Martin Thomas (Editor), Boniface Ramsey (Editor), Daniel Doyle (Editor)

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  2008

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  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 rigour. 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.