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The Place of Blessed Augustine in the Orthodox Church

By Father Seraphim Rose
Father Seraphim wrote this book in the hope that it would help remove Blessed Augustine as a scapegoat for today’s academic theologians, and thus “help free us all to see his and our own weaknesses in a little closer light—for his weaknesses, to a surprising degree, are indeed close to our own.”

After discussing Blessed Augustine’s strengths and weaknesses, Father Seraphim examines the opinions of other Holy Fathers concerning him. “His main benefit to us today,” he writes, “is probably precisely as a Father of Orthodox piety—something with which he was filled to overflowing.... Here he is one with the simple Orthodox faithful, as well as with all the Holy Fathers of East and West who, whatever their various failings and difficulties in theoretical points of doctrine, had a single deeply Christian heart and soul. It is this that makes him unquestionably an Orthodox Father.”

This new edition contains letters written by Father Seraphim concerning Blessed Augustine, passages from Augustine’s Confessions which Father Seraphim found especially moving, and an Orthodox service to Blessed Augustine, commissioned by St. John Maximovitch II.

Item Number: BKP239
143 pages

$10.00 (USD)

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