Augustine Books

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Confessions Confessions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 75,493 ratings — published 400
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City of God City of God (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 13,874 ratings — published 426
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On Christian Doctrine On Christian Doctrine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 4,040 ratings — published 397
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Augustine of Hippo: A Biography Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 2,284 ratings — published 1967
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The Trinity The Trinity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,319 ratings — published 416
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On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 2,860 ratings — published 2019
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Augustine of Hippo: A Life Augustine of Hippo: A Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 204 ratings — published 2009
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The Augustine Catechism: The Enchiridon on Faith, Hope, and Love The Augustine Catechism: The Enchiridon on Faith, Hope, and Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 796 ratings — published 420
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Augustine: A Very Short Introduction Augustine: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 568 ratings — published 1986
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Augustine: A New Biography Augustine: A New Biography (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.64 — 184 ratings — published 1985
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On Free Choice of the Will (Hackett Classics) On Free Choice of the Will (Hackett Classics)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,827 ratings — published 395
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Instructing Beginners in Faith (De catechizandis rudibus) Instructing Beginners in Faith (De catechizandis rudibus)
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avg rating 4.18 — 171 ratings — published 399
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On Genesis On Genesis (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 82 ratings — published
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Retrieving Augustine's Doctrine of Creation: Ancient Wisdom for Current Controversy Retrieving Augustine's Doctrine of Creation: Ancient Wisdom for Current Controversy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 264 ratings — published 2020
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I Burned for Your Peace: Augustine's Confessions Unpacked I Burned for Your Peace: Augustine's Confessions Unpacked (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 230 ratings — published
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Augustine and the Trinity Augustine and the Trinity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 31 ratings — published 2010
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Against the Academicians / The Teacher Against the Academicians / The Teacher (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 253 ratings — published 387
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Orthodox Readings of Augustine Orthodox Readings of Augustine (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 20 ratings — published 2008
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The Theology of Augustine: An Introductory Guide to His Most Important Works The Theology of Augustine: An Introductory Guide to His Most Important Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 77 ratings — published 2013
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Augustine's "Confessions": A Biography Augustine's "Confessions": A Biography (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 151 ratings — published 2011
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The Cambridge Companion to Augustine The Cambridge Companion to Augustine (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 61 ratings — published 2001
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The Legacy of Sovereign Joy: God's Triumphant Grace in the Lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin (The Swans Are Not Silent, #1) The Legacy of Sovereign Joy: God's Triumphant Grace in the Lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin (The Swans Are Not Silent, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 1,380 ratings — published 2000
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Saint Augustine Saint Augustine (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 468 ratings — published 1999
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The Foundation of Augustinian-Calvinism The Foundation of Augustinian-Calvinism (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 151 ratings — published
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Augustine: Philosopher and Saint Augustine: Philosopher and Saint (Audio CD)
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avg rating 3.96 — 297 ratings — published 1997
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Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 676 ratings — published 2012
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Augustine: A Guide for the Perplexed Augustine: A Guide for the Perplexed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 9 ratings — published 2010
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On Grace and Free Will On Grace and Free Will (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.28 — 625 ratings — published 426
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Augustine and the Limits of Politics (Catholic Ideas for a Secular World) Augustine and the Limits of Politics (Catholic Ideas for a Secular World)
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avg rating 3.86 — 42 ratings — published 1996
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Confessions 1, Books 1-8 Confessions 1, Books 1-8 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 141 ratings — published 398
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Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self: The Legacy of a Christian Platonist Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self: The Legacy of a Christian Platonist (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 30 ratings — published 1999
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Outward Signs: The Powerlessness of External Things in Augustine's Thought Outward Signs: The Powerlessness of External Things in Augustine's Thought (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 11 ratings — published 2008
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Expositions of the Psalms 1, 1-32 (Works of Saint Augustine 3.15) Expositions of the Psalms 1, 1-32 (Works of Saint Augustine 3.15)
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avg rating 4.60 — 30 ratings — published 2000
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Essential Sermons (Works of Saint Augustine 3) Essential Sermons (Works of Saint Augustine 3)
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avg rating 4.57 — 44 ratings — published 2007
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Amor Dei Amor Dei (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 8 ratings — published 2007
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Saint Augustine's Childhood Saint Augustine's Childhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 13 ratings — published
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Augustine and Modernity (Routledge Radical Orthodoxy) Augustine and Modernity (Routledge Radical Orthodoxy)
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avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published 2003
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The Essential Augustine The Essential Augustine (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 133 ratings — published 1964
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The Literal Meaning of Genesis 1 (Ancient Christian Writers) The Literal Meaning of Genesis 1 (Ancient Christian Writers)
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avg rating 4.23 — 31 ratings — published 1982
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Augustine and the Pelagian Controversy Augustine and the Pelagian Controversy (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.44 — 39 ratings — published
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City of God/Christian Doctrine City of God/Christian Doctrine (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 45 ratings — published 2007
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Against Lying Against Lying (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 21 ratings — published 420
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St. Augustine: Exposition on the Book of Psalms (Enarrationes in Psalmos) St. Augustine: Exposition on the Book of Psalms (Enarrationes in Psalmos)
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avg rating 4.30 — 46 ratings — published 395
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Select Letters Select Letters (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 21 ratings — published 398
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Trilogy on Faith and Happiness (The Augustine Series) Trilogy on Faith and Happiness (The Augustine Series)
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avg rating 3.87 — 15 ratings — published 2010
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The City of God: Books 1-10 (I/6) The City of God: Books 1-10 (I/6)
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avg rating 4.35 — 193 ratings — published 426
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The City of God: Books 11-22 (I/7) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) The City of God: Books 11-22 (I/7) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century)
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avg rating 4.60 — 75 ratings — published 1955
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The World of Late Antiquity The World of Late Antiquity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,952 ratings — published 1971
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Memory in Augustine's Theological Anthropology (Oxford Early Christian Studies) Memory in Augustine's Theological Anthropology (Oxford Early Christian Studies)
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avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 2012
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Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.38 — 1,060 ratings — published 2015
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Timothy J. Keller
“Augustine’s first principle is that before you know what to pray for and how to pray for it, you must become a particular kind of person. “You must account yourself ‘desolate’ in this world, however great the prosperity of your lot may be.” The scales must have fallen from your eyes and you must see clearly that no matter how great your earthly circumstances become, they can never bring you the lasting peace, happiness, and consolation that are found in Christ. Unless you that clearly in view, your prayers may go wrong.
Here again is one of the main themes of Augustine’s theology, applied to prayer. We must see that our heart’s loves are “disordered,” out of order. Things we ought to love third or fourth are first in our hearts. God, whom we should love supremely, is someone we may acknowledge but whose favor and presence is not existentially as important to us as prosperity, success, status, love, and pleasure. Unless at the very least we recognize this heart disorder and realise how much it distorts our lives, our prayers will be part of the problem, not an agent of healing. For example, if we look to our financial prosperity as our main source of safety and confidence in life, then when our wealth is in grave jeopardy, we will cry out to God for help, but our prayers will be little more than “worrying in God’s direction.” When our prayers are finished we will be more upset and anxious than before. Prayer will not be strengthening. It won’t heal our hearts by reorienting our vision and helping us put things in perspective and bringing us to rest in God as our true security.
Augustine goes on. If you have settled this - if you have grasped the character of your heart and admitted your desolation apart from Christ - then, he says, you can begin to pray.”
Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God by Timothy Keller

John Calvin
“Augustine is so wholly with me, that if I wished to write a confession of my faith, I could do so with all fullness and satisfaction to myself out of his writings.”
John Calvin, The Institutes of Christian Religion

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