Augustine of Hippo

354–430

North African bishop, theologian, and philosopher whose work shaped Western reflection on grace, the church, Scripture, memory, and the Christian life.

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A Treatise on Faith and the Creed

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. III

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A Treatise on Grace and Free Will

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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A Letter Addressed to the Count Valerius

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians — Book 1

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians — Book 2

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians — Book 3

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians — Book 4

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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A Treatise Concerning the Correction of the Donatists

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IV

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A Treatise on Faith and the Creed

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. III

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A Treatise on Grace and Free Will

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin — Book 1

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin — Book 2

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints — Book 1

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints — Book 2

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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Acts or Disputation Against Fortunatus — Disputation of the First Day

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IV

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Acts or Disputation Against Fortunatus — Disputation of the Second Day

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IV

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Against Lying

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. III

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Against the Epistle of Manichaeus Called Fundamental

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IV

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Concerning Faith of Things Not Seen

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. III

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Concerning Man's Perfection in Righteousness

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichaeans

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IV

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Concerning Two Souls

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IV

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Confessions — Book 1

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. I — Confessions, Book I

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Confessions — Book 10

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. I — Confessions, Book X

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Confessions — Book 11

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. I

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Confessions — Book 12

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. I

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Confessions — Book 13

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. I

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Confessions — Book 2

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. I — Confessions, Book II

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Confessions — Book 3

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. I — Confessions, Book III

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Confessions — Book 4

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. I — Confessions, Book IV

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Confessions — Book 5

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. I

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Confessions — Book 6

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. I

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Confessions — Book 7

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. I

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Confessions — Book 8

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. I

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Confessions — Book 9

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. I

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Enchiridion On Faith, Hope and Love

St. Augustine, Enchiridion: On Faith, Hope, and Love (1955). English translation

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Exposition of Certain Propositions from the Epistle to the Romans

Augustine, Exposition of Certain Propositions from the Epistle to the Romans

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In Answer to the Letters of Petilian — Book 1

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IV

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In Answer to the Letters of Petilian — Book 2

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IV

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In Answer to the Letters of Petilian — Book 3

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IV

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Letters

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. I

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Of Holy Virginity

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. III

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Of the Morals of the Catholic Church

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IV

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Of the Work of Monks

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. III

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On Baptism — Book 1

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IV

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On Baptism — Book 2

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IV

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On Baptism — Book 3

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IV

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On Baptism — Book 4

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IV

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On Baptism — Book 5

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IV

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On Baptism — Book 6

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IV

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On Baptism — Book 7

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IV

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On Care to Be Had for the Dead

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. III

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On Christian Doctrine — Book 1

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. II

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On Christian Doctrine — Book 2

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. II

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On Christian Doctrine — Book 3

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. II

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On Christian Doctrine — Book 4

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. II

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On Continence

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. III

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On Lying

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. III

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On Marriage and Concupiscence — Book 1

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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On Marriage and Concupiscence — Book 2

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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On Nature and Grace, Against Pelagius

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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On Patience

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. III

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On the Catechising of the Uninstructed

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. III

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On the Creed

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. III

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On the Good of Marriage

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. III

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On the Good of Widowhood

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. III

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On the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants — Book 1

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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On the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants — Book 2

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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On the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants — Book 3

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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On the Morals of the Manichaeans

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. IV

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On the Proceedings of Pelagius

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, Vol. V

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