Augustine

Texts and Translations

• Latin text of Augustine's Confessiones
• English Translation of Augustine's Confessions
• Outler's translation of the Confessions in "pdf" format (requires Adobe Acrobat to read; look and feel of typography, prints out elegantly; good notes);
• English Translation of Augustine's On Christian Doctrine from the series Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
• Augustine's de dialectica in Latin and in English, courtesy of James Marchand.
• Augustine's de musica in Latin, provided by the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum project of Indiana University, Thomas Mathiesen director.
• A short text, from Augustine's commentary on the Sermon on the Mount, on the nature of prayer, available in Latin and in English.
• Regula sancti Augustini (Latin text)
• The Rule of St. Augustine (English version)
• Sermo ad Caesariensis Plebem: English translation by Jean Goodwin, Northwestern University.
• Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: many texts of Augustine in English translations -- old translations, but very useful.

Texts and Commentaries

An experiment in on-line scholarship

• Text 1: de vera religione 1.1
• Text 2: epistula 151
• Text 3: soliloquia 1.1.2-6

Research materials and essays

Augustine, a series of essays introducing the work and thought of Augustine, including:

• Augustine the African (short biographical sketch)
• Christian Doctrine (introduction to Augustine's de doctrina christiana
• Christianity and Society (discussion of City of God: see also a more detailed introduction to the same text)
• Christ and the Soul (Augustine's anti-Pelagian works)
• Confessions (see also a more detailed introduction to the Confessions and a scholarly bibliography pertaining to the Confessions);
• Reconsiderations (on Augustine's influence in later centuries; see also "The Authority of Augustine", the 1991 St. Augustine Lecture at Villanova University; and the Interscripta discussion on the topic that I led in 1994.
• Select Bibliography pertaining to Augustine for the general reader or new student

Additional papers on Augustine by J. O'Donnell

Papers by participants in the on-line seminars

Log of all messages posted to the seminars, spring 1994 and 1995, with searchable index (out of order temporarily: 12/7/95)

Three Reviews and a Response: from Augustinian Studies 25(1994) 203-36: three scholars commenting on JO'D's commentary on the Confessions, with JO'D's reply.

Augustinian influence on the Rule of Benedict.

Augustinians today

The Order of St. Augustine in Germany -- with numerous links to other houses and members of the Augustinian order elsewhere in the world

Images etc.

From the Netherlands, treasured copy of City of God.

International Colloquium on the "new" sermons of Augustine: Chantilly, 5-7 September 1996

Contemporary Influences of Augustine

In his album "Ten Summoner's Tales", Sting (in real life, Graham Sumner) included a track called "Saint Augustine in Hell": it contains at least one genuine echo of Augustine and another of Gerard Manley Hopkins, and it has a certain, well, panache.

A computer scientist finds technical inspiration from Augustine's ideas about the trinity.

Other ancient materials of interest

The Enneads of Plotinus, translated by Stephen MacKenna. There is much debate about just how much Plotinus Augustine read, and he certainly never read it either in Greek or in English, but it is clear that Plotinus' work is an important influence at some remove.

A miscellaneous archive of patristic and early Christian texts, which includes English translations of various apostolic fathers, Tertullian, Cyprian, Augustine, early creeds, and the like; very useful for teaching purposes.

The other Saint Augustine: Augustine of Canterbury, lived 200 years after Augustine of Hippo and is credited with converting the British to orthodox Roman Christianity.