Issue 15 : St. Augustine of Hippo
Originally published in 1987

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Our hearts are restless until they find their peace in you.
Herbert Jacobsen
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To Carthage then I came Burning burning burning burning…
Frank A. James III
From the 1961 edition of Edward B. Pusey's translation of The Confessions of St. Augustine. By permission of Everyman's Library and J.M. Dent & Sons, London.
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Augustine's Timeless Classic About the Timeless City
Keith Yandell
His spiritual view of the millennial kingdom would shape tradition for the next 12 centuries.
Frank A. James III
Augustine on Teachers and Teaching
Robert T. Sandin
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A Handbook for "Earthy" Christian Living
Paul de Vries
In an official statement issued in 1986, on the 1,600th anniversary of Augustine's conversion to Christ, Pope John Paul II spoke about the influence of this 5th-century great, parts of whose legacy are still claimed today by millions of Catholics and Protestants alike.
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