Late Have I Loved Thee

Selected Writings of Saint Augustine on Love

Augustine of Hippo, John F. Thornton, Associate Professor of Classical Studies James J O'Donnell (Georgetown University University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania)

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Vintage Books
05 December 2006

The first collection of Saint Augustine's varied writings

on human and divine love-chosen to reflect his lifelong preoccupation with ordo

amoris, the principle of rightly directed love.

""My weight is my love,"" Saint Augustine writes

in The Confessions. He sees our ability to love as disordered by sin, so that we

often choose badly what and how to love. Only by recognizing that we are commanded

to love God first can any other object of our love be properly ordered, Late Have

I Loved Thee draws on the riches found in Augustine's sermons, letters, treatises,

and Scripture commentaries, as well as passages from The Confessions and City of

God.

Augustine (354-430 A.D.) was the most prolific writer of Christian antiquity

and the most influential theologian in Church history. In his

first encyclical, God Is Love, current Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges his indebtedness to him. When

we read Augustine today, we encounter the same direct, eloquent passions his original

listeners experienced, infused with his deep sense of human weakness and burning

desire for union with God.

By: Augustine of Hippo
Preface by: Associate Professor of Classical Studies James J O'Donnell (Georgetown University University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania)
Edited by: John F. Thornton
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 396g
ISBN: 9780375725692
ISBN 10: 0375725695
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 05 December 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

AUGUSTINE (354-430) was the bishop of Hippo in North Africa and a Father of the Church. Born to a Christian mother and a pagan father, Augustine underwent a profound conversion experience at the age of 32, renouncing his life of sensuality and wordly ambition. Ordained a priest in 391 and made bishop in 396, Augustine was also a pioneer of monasticism and founded a religious rule that is still widely used by men and women in monastic life. JAMES O'DONNELL is provost at Georgetown University and editor of the definitive edition of Augustine's Confessions. He is the author of Augustine- A New Biography (Ecco, 2005).