The Confessions, by St Augustine of Hippo Part III

The Confessions, by St Augustine of Hippo Part III

Author: Catholic and Orthodox Audiobooks October 27, 2022 Duration: 1:54:48

The Confessions outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written, and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout the following 1,000 years, through the Middle Ages. It is not a complete autobiography, as it was written in his early 40s, and he lived long afterwards, producing another important work (City of God). It does, nonetheless, provide an unbroken record of his development of thought and is the most complete record of any single person from the 4th and 5th centuries. It is a significant theological work, featuring spiritual meditations and insights. It begins:

"GREAT art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality, the witness of his sin, the witness, that Thou, O God, resistest the proud: yet would man praise Thee; he, but a particle of Thy creation. Thou awakes us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, unless it repose in Thee.”


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Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 45

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The Confessions, by St Augustine of Hippo Part I [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:52:13
The Confessions outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written, and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout the f…
Meister Eckhart's Sermons [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:31:38
"If a piece of wood became as aware of the nearness of God as an archangel is, the piece of wood would be as happy as an archangel."This is a collection of seven sermons of Meister Eckhart, the German medieval scholastic…
St. Gregory of Nyssa - On Virginity Part II [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:17:36
His admirable book "On Virginity", written about 370, was composed to strengthen in all who read it the desire for a life of perfect virtue. - Summary by Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913).
St. Gregory of Nyssa - On Virginity Part I [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:15:54
His admirable book "On Virginity", written about 370, was composed to strengthen in all who read it the desire for a life of perfect virtue. - Summary by Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913).
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite - Mystic Theology [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 17:23
TRIAD supernal, both super-God and super-good, Guardian of the Theosophy of Christian men, direct us aright to the super-unknown and super-brilliant and highest summit of the mystic Oracles, where the simple and absolute…
St. Bernard of Clairvaux - Concerning Grace and Free Will Part II [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:05
The subject of the treatise was suggested, as is plain from the text itself, as the result of a public, or at any rate semi-public, discussion with some person unknown in which St. Bernard, strongly commending the work o…
St. Bernard of Clairvaux - Concerning Grace and Free Will Part I [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:45
The subject of the treatise was suggested, as is plain from the text itself, as the result of a public, or at any rate semi-public, discussion with some person unknown in which St. Bernard, strongly commending the work o…