Augustine was born at Thagaste in North Africa in 354, to a pagan father and a devout Christian mother, Monica. A brilliant teacher of rhetoric, he spent years among the Manichees and in restless ambition until, in a garden in Milan in 386, he took up the Scriptures and was converted. Ambrose baptized him at Easter 387.
Back in Africa he was ordained against his wishes and became bishop of Hippo Regius in 395, serving there until his death in 430 while the Vandals besieged the city. His Confessions tell his story as a prayer to God; The City of God answers those who blamed Christianity for the sack of Rome.
Augustine of Hippo in the library (12 works)
- Augustine: Confessions and Letters — 1886
Augustine's Confessions in Pilkington's translation, with his letters: the bishop at work as pastor, controversialist and friend. - Augustine: The City of God and On Christian Doctrine — 1887
The City of God, with On Christian Doctrine, Augustine's guide to understanding and teaching the Scriptures. - Augustine: On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal and Moral Treatises — 1887
Augustine's fifteen books On the Trinity, with doctrinal and moral treatises including the Enchiridion on faith, hope and love. - Augustine: Writings against the Manichaeans and the Donatists — 1887
Augustine against the Manichees, on the goodness of God's creation, and against the Donatists, on the church and the sacraments. - Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings — 1887
Augustine's writings against Pelagius and his followers, on grace, original sin and the freedom of the will. - Augustine: Sermon on the Mount, Harmony of the Gospels, Homilies on the Gospels — 1888
Augustine's exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, his Harmony of the Gospels, and sermons on the Gospels. - Augustine: Homilies on the Gospel of John and First John, Soliloquies — 1888
Augustine's tractates on the Gospel of John and the First Epistle of John, with the Soliloquies. - Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms — 1888
Augustine's Expositions on the Psalms, his longest work, preached and written over some thirty years. - Augustine: Confessions — 397–400; Pusey translation 1838
Augustine's prayerful autobiography — conversion, grief, memory, and time — in Pusey's public-domain translation. Project Gutenberg eBook 3296 with its license retained. - Augustine: The City of God, Volume I — 413–426; Dods translation 1871
Books I–XIII of Augustine's defence of Christianity after the sack of Rome, in the Dods translation. Project Gutenberg eBook 45304 with its license retained. - Augustine: The City of God, Volume II — 413–426; Dods translation 1871
Books XIV–XXII: the two cities from the fall to the last judgment and the city of God in eternity. Project Gutenberg eBook 45305 with its license retained. - La ciudad de Dios — 413–426; traducción de 1793 · en español
Los veintidós libros de san Agustín sobre las dos ciudades —la de Dios y la terrena—, escritos tras el saqueo de Roma en 410, en la traducción clásica de Díaz de Beyral.