Late Have I Loved Thee
selected writings of saint augustine on love
$40.00
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
4 December 2006
Summary
Late Have I Loved Thee: Augustine on Love
The first collection of Saint Augustine’s varied writings on human and divine love-chosen to reflect his lifelong preoccupation with ordo amoris, the principle of rightly directed love.
“My weight is my love,” Saint Augustine writes in The Confessions. He sees our ability to love as disordered by sin, so that we often choose badly what and how to love. Only by recognizing that we are commanded to love God first can …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375725692 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375725695 |
| Series: | Vintage Spiritual Classics |
| Author: | Augustine of Hippo, John F. Thornton |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 4 December 2006 |
| Weight: | 396g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm x 26mm |
About The Author
Augustine of Hippo
AUGUSTINE (354-430) was the bishop of Hippo in North Africa and a Father of the Church. Born to a Christian mother and a pagan father, Augustine underwent a profound conversion experience at the age of 32, renouncing his life of sensuality and wordly ambition. Ordained a priest in 391 and made bishop in 396, Augustine was also a pioneer of monasticism and founded a religious rule that is still widely used by men and women in monastic life.
JAMES O’DONNELL is provost at Georgetown University and editor of the definitive edition of Augustine’s Confessions. He is the author of Augustine- A New Biography.
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