The Rule of Saint Augustine

by St. Augustine

Paperback, 1986

Barcode

1648

Call number

255.4 AUG

Status

Available

Call number

255.4 AUG

Pages

120

Description

The four documents that make up the Rule of Saint Augustine with two introductory essays

Publication

Doubleday (1986), Edition: Reprint, 120 pages

ISBN

0385232411 / 9780385232418

Rating

(6 ratings; 3.2)

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LibraryThing member Devil_llama
An interesting bit of historical trivia, but nothing more. No sign of the brilliance of Augustine shows through in this work; this is Augustine the bureaucrat, concerned with making sure that no one in his monastery has any fun or any trace of independent thought or action. It is debated whether
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this was actually Augustine, as it does not appear on his list of works, but the editors make a case for it being simply an internal document that he would not have listed because it was never intended for publication. The jury is apparently still out with historians, but it is printed with his name in spite of its dubious origin. Not a page turner; just dos and don't s of daily life. Again, an interesting piece of trivia to demonstrate how the godly were expected to live. How many of them lived up to it? I would suspect not all, for sure.
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