Bondage Of The Will; Luther
Confessions; Augustine
The Holiness Of God; Sproul
Anything by Jonathan Edwards
Putting Amazing Back Into Grace; Horton
Modern Reformation; published 6 times a year
Your Best Life Now (just checking to see if anyone is reading this)
I’m trying to gather my nerve to read City Of God by Augustine
Take a shot of whiskey and go for it!
A good trick to study St. Augustine for those who want to do so, since he wrote so much, is to start with his Retractions written late in his life. He corrects errors he made in his earlier works, but it also gives you an outline and timeline - by him - of all his earlier writings and how to read and understand them better.
His Civitas Dei is a "civilizational" classic. I think I remember your name as a Protestant and not to scare you, but the current Pope of the Catholic Church, Benedict XVI, has been heavily influenced by St. Augustine "the Doctor of Grace" throughout his theological career.
I’m trying to gather my nerve to read City Of God by Augustine
The weight of it is a bit daunting. On the plus side, the dispies don't like it.
“I’m trying to gather my nerve to read City Of God by Augustine”
I just began reading it and have made through 70 pages thus far. Very practical. It washes away any doubt that Augustine was anything but a dedicated Bible beleiver.(He never claimed to be infallibale anyway.)
I would recommend Gerald Walsh’s translation of City of God. It is abdriged, but like many writers of the era, they tended to go off on tangents for pages and pages. I didn’t have it in me to handle the whole thing, so the abridged version (still 400 pages) stood in while I was in Iraq and reading it.
“I’m trying to gather my nerve to read City Of God by Augustine”
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Take the leap - it's very revealing. Especially book 21, which answers pagan critics who scoff at his preaching of the Last Things. What I find interesting is the way he goes about it.