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