The aim in preparing this work has been to bring together the best examples of the products of the pulpit through the Christian centuries, and to present these masterpieces in attractive and convenient form. It is believed that they will be found valuable as instruction to ministers of to-day. They should also be helpful to others who, tho not preachers, yet seek reading of this kind for the upbuilding of personal character and for strengthening their Christian faith.The sermons ha...

Collections of sermons by noted preachers of different periods are not an altogether uncommon contribution to literature. Italy, Germany, Holland, France, Great Britain and the United States have in this way furnished copious illustrations of the gifts of their illustrious preachers. Such treasures are found in the Latin and even in the Greek Church. Protestant communions especially, in line with the supreme significance which they attach to the work of the pulpit, have thus sought to magn...

This is a short work attributed to the founder of the English church, wherein he outlines the limits and powers that Canterbury holds over other bishops, and the special relationship that it enjoys with Rome as the result of its primacy.

Written in the waning days of the Roman era, Augustines Confessions are the moving diary of a soul's journey. From his earliest memories of childhood, through his turbulent and licentious youth, to his resolute conversion at the age of 32, Augustine traces a pilgrimage of unbounded grace. Throughout, he passionately addresses the spiritual questions that have engaged thoughtful minds since time began.

16 centuries ago, the greatest empire the world had ever seen, The Roman Empire, symbolically, with the sack of its capitol, the eternal city of Rome, died. It was the end of 1,000 years of civilization by the hands of barbarian hordes from Germania. Many Romans argued at the time that the Empire was crumbling because the ancient gods had been displaced by the now official-and dominant-Christian faith. The City of God is a rebuttal of this belief-but that is far from all ...

Skyros Publishing is dedicated to reproducing the finest books ever written and letting readers of all ages experience a classic for the first time or revisit a past favorite.St. Augustine was the bishop of Hippo and his writings helped shape Christianity and philosophy in the West. In the book On Grace and Free Will, St. Augustine warns Christians to beware of having free will without grace or grace without free will.

本书为外国经典原著作品，作者为文学史上享有极高影响力的名家，是不可多得的阅读佳作。

The Great Depression came early to St. Augustine with the end of the Florida land boom in 1926, followed by the stock market collapse in 1929. Hotels closed, a major bank failed, subdivisions folded, and tourism was reduced to a trickle. The city's main employer, the Florida East Coast Railway, went into receivership in 1931, and public works projects sought to bring relief to the unemployed. The economy slowly improved toward the end of the 1930s, but it was World War II that brought econ...

“Thou hast made us for thyself and our hearts are restless till they rest in thee..”St. Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature.Written in the form of a long prayer addressed directly to God, (for we have stumbled upon a human being at a primal moment: standing in prayer before God), Augustine's Confessions, the remarkable chronicle of his conversion to Christianity, endures as perhaps the greate...

Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, written in Latin between 397 and 400 AD. The work outlines Saint Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. Modern English translations of it are sometimes published under the title The Confessions of Saint Augustine in order to distinguish the book from other books with similar titles. Its original title was Confessions in Thirteen Books, and it...

Skyros Publishing is dedicated to reproducing the finest books ever written and letting readers of all ages experience a classic for the first time or revisit a past favorite.St. Augustine was a Christian theologian who greatly influenced Western Christianity and philosophy. St. Augustine's autobiography is still one of the most popular books on religion among Christians.

Have you ever wondered why the power of a sacrament depends on God rather than the perfection of the person performing it?In On Baptism B, St. Augustine delivers a masterful and defining continuation of his defense regarding the sacred rite of baptism. During the fourth and fifth centuries, the North African church was violently fractured by the Donatists, a puritanical sect that claimed sacraments performed by flawed or compromised leaders were entirely...