Augustine of Hippo

Life and Times of Augustine of Hippo by R Wheler Bush

Today’s free book is R Wheler Bush’s biography of St Augustine of Hippo. This public domain title was digitised from the copy held in Spurgeon’s College Library.

Robert Wheler Bush [1820-1908], St. Augustine. His Life and Times. London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d. Hbk. pp.212. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Table of Contents

  1. The Birth, Parentage, Boyhood, and Youth of Augustine
    1. Introduction
    2. The Birth and Parentage of Augustine
    3. The Boyhood and School-dayd pf Augustine at Tagaste amd Madaura
    4. A Gloomy Internval in his School Career
    5. His Father’s Conversion
    6. University Life at Carthage
  2. Augustine’s Professional Life at Tagaste, Carthage, Rome and Milan
    1. Augustine a Professor at Tgaste
    2. Augustine a Professor of Rhetoric at Carthage
    3. Augustione a Professor at Rome
    4. Augustine a Professor at Milan
  3. The Interval Between Augustine’s Professional and Ministerial Life
    1. Augstine in Retirement at Cassiacum
    2. Augustine’s Baptism by Ambrose at Milan
    3. The Death of Monica
    4. His Return Home by Way of Rome and Carthage
  4. Augustine as Presbyter and Bishop of Hippo
    1. Augustine as Presbyter at Hippo
    2. Augustine as Bishop of Hippo
    3. The Closing Scene of Augustine’s Life
  5. A Review of the Leading Characteristics of Augustine
    1. Augustine as a Preacher
    2. Augustine as a Writer
    3. Augustine as a Systematic Theologian
    4. Augustine as a Controversialist
    5. Augustine’s Influence on His Own and on After Ages
    6. Extracts from the Writings of Augustine
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