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Letters, Volume 6 (1*–29*) (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 81) by Saint Augustine (Author), Robert B. Eno (Translator) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Most of the works of St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) have been extant and studied for centuries by Christians throughout the world. Since this Doctor of the Western Church has long been the best known and most widely read of the Latin Fathers, it is so much more unexpected that a previously unknown work should be found. Johannes Divjak found not only a single work but in fact a whole collection of letters, which he published in a critical Latin edition in 1980. This volume contains the first English translation of these newly discovered letters. The letters range in size from short memoranda to long treatises on various subjects. In addition, there are three other previously unknown letters: two written to Augustine by Consentius, a North African rhetorician, and one written by Saint Jerome to Aurelius of Carthage. These letters, taken as a whole, present a vivid and fascinating view of life in North Africa at the beginning of the fifth century. In addition to the comments about ecclesiastical and episcopal affairs, there are also letters on various threats to peace and security common in this period of the late empire, on slavery and the growth of the slave trade, and on Roman in

Who reads Letters, Volume 6 (1*–29*) (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 81)?

Author

Saint Augustine (Author), Robert B. Eno (Translator)

Publisher

The Catholic University of America Press

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813200309

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Religion, Christian