Presbyters Uniwersytet Warszawski
ID
ER 566
Augustine, bishop of Hippo (North Africa), writes a letter to the Presbyter Deogratias. Augustine, Letter 102, 406/412 AD.
Letter 102
 
Sincerissimo fratri et conpresbytero Deogratias Augustinus in Domino salutem.
 
Later, Augustine gives Deogratias answers to six questions asked by a pagan.
 
(ed. Goldbacher 1898: 544)
Letter 102
 
Augustine sends to his most sincere brother and fellow presbyter, Deogratias, greetings in the Lord.
 
Later, Augustine gives Deogratias answers to six questions asked by a pagan.
 
(trans. S. Adamiak)

Discussion:

The letter is also known as "Quaestiones expositae contra paganos numero sex".

Place of event:

Region
  • Latin North Africa
City
  • Hippo Regius
  • Carthage

About the source:

Author: Augustine of Hippo
Title: Letters, Epistulae
Origin: Hippo Regius (Latin North Africa)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The letters of Augustine of Hippo cover a wide range of topics: Holy Scripture, dogma and liturgy, philosophy, religious practice and everyday life. They range from full-scale theological treatises to small notes asking someone for a favour. The preserved corpus includes 308 letters, 252 written by Augustine, 49 that others sent to him and seven exchanged between third parties. 29 letters have been discovered only in the 20th century and edited in 1981 by Johannes Divjak; they are distinguished by the asterisk (*) after their number.
The preserved letters of Augustine extend over the period from his stay at Cassiciacum in 386 to his death in Hippo in 430.
Edition:
Edition:
A. Goldbacher ed., S. Augustini Hipponiensis Episcopi Epistulae, Pars 2, Ep. 31-123, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 34/2,  Prague-Vienna-Leipzig 1898.
Translation:
Saint Augustine, Letters 100-155, trans. R. Teske, New York 2003.

Categories:

Relation with - Bishop/Monastic superior
Relation with - Heretic/Schismatic
Described by a title - Conpresbyter
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