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The Church Fathers · c. 391–430

The Sermons

Augustine of Hippo · 354–430

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What it is

Some nine hundred surviving sermons taken down by stenographers as he preached, ranging from great feasts to ordinary weekdays, and often interrupted by the congregation.

Why it lasted

The largest body of preaching to survive from antiquity, with new sermons still being identified in European libraries.

Read it here

The full text is held here and can be read in the reader.

21 sections · complete, from Sermones Ad Populum. Classis IIII. De Diversis (stoa0040.stoa013e.opp-lat1).

Elsewhere

Part of this work is held here; the rest can be read at the archives below.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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