Against the Academicians (386)

Augustine. Against the Academicians and The Teacher. Translated by Peter King. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1995.

Augustine’s attempt to critique the “academic” skepticism of Cicero’s late Roman disciples. From the Publisher: These new translations of two treatises dealing with the possibility and nature of knowledge in the face of skeptical challenges are the first to be… More

The Teacher (389)

De Magistro in Against the Academicians and The Teacher. Trans., Peter King. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1995.

A philosophical inquiry into questions of epistemology featuring a dialogue between Augustine and his son Adeodatus set before his son’s death.

Confessions (389)

Augustine. Confessions. Translated by Henry Chadwick. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Excerpt: Among such as these, in that unstable period of my life, I studied the books of eloquence, for it was in eloquence that I was eager to be eminent, though from a reprehensible and vainglorious motive, and a delight in human vanity. In the ordinary course of study I came upon a… More

The Free Choice of the Will (395)

Augustine. De Libero Arbitrio Voluntatis. In On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings. Translated by Peter King. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Excerpt: Book One EVODIUS: Please tell me: isn’t God the cause of evil? AUGUSTINE: I will tell you once you have made clear what kind of evil you are asking about. For we use the word ‘evil’ in two senses: first, when we say that someone has done evil;… More

The Literal Meaning of Genesis (415)

De Genesi ad Litteram in St. Augustine: The Literal Meaning of Genesis, Trans., John H. Taylor. Long Prairie: Newman Press 1982

Excerpt: ” CHAPTER 1 The interpretation of Scripture. The meaning of heaven and earth. 1. Sacred Scripture, taken as a whole, is divided into two parts, as our Lord intimates when He says: ”A scribe instructed in the kingdom of God is like a householder who brings forth from his… More

The Trinity (416)

Augustine. De Trinitate. In The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, Vol. I.5. Translated by Edmund Hill. Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 2012.

Excerpt: The following dissertation concerning the Trinity, as the reader ought to be informed, has been written in order to guard against the sophistries of those who disdain to begin with faith, and are deceived by a crude and perverse love of reason. Now one class of such men endeavor… More

City of God Against the Pagans (427)

Augustine. The City of God Against the Pagans. Translated by R. W. Dyson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Excerpt: For to this earthly city belong the enemies against whom I have to defend the city of God. Many of them, indeed, being reclaimed from their ungodly error, have become sufficiently creditable citizens of this city; but many are so inflamed with hatred against it, and are so… More

Retractions (427)

Retractationes in The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, Vol. I.2. Trans., Boniface Ramsey. Hyde Park: New City Press, 2010

The Letters (386-430)

Epistulae in the Fathers of the Church, Vols. 12,18, 20, 30, & 32. Trans., W. Parsons. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press.

Excerpt (from Letter 1): “I Would not presume, even in playful discussion, to attack the philosophers of the Academy; for when could the authority of such eminent men fail to move me, did I not believe their views to be widely different from those commonly ascribed to them?… More

Scholarly Critical Editions of Augustine’s Works

Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Vienna: Tempsky, 1865. Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, Turnhout: Brepolis, 1953. Bibliotheque Augustinenne, Oervres de Saint Augustin, Paris: Desclee De Brouwer.

On Baptism, Against the Donatists (400)

On Baptism, Against the Donatists  in St. Augustine: The Writings against the Manichaeans, and against the Donatists. Ed. Philip Schaff. Buffalo: The Christian Literature Co., 1887.

Answer to the Pelagians (412-429)

Answer to the Pelagians  in St. Augustine: The Writings against the Manichaeans, and against the Donatists. Ed. Philip Schaff. Buffalo: The Christian Literature Co., 1887.