Advent Homilies

FORTHCOMING TITLE, ETA JANUARY 2025

Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430) is one of the titans of church history. Works such as his Confessions and On the Trinity have earned him a place as one of “the Doctors of the Church,” responsible for shaping and defending Christian doctrine throughout the centuries.

Yet Augustine was also pastor. Week by week, year by year, he shepherded his flock by preaching to them the Good News. In this short collection, readers will find seventeen Advent homilies in which Augustine expounded from his pulpit the wonders of Christ’s incarnation for the everyday Christians in his congregation. Combining profound theological wisdom, sharp scriptural insight, and challenging practical application, these homilies are brief but rich meditations on the person of Christ—the Eternal Day who stepped into our darkness, the Bridegroom who came forth from his chamber, the Truth who sprung out of the earth.

If you are longing for Christ this Advent season, these homilies will present him to you afresh from an array of surprising passages.

140 pages.

From the Book:

“Let us all, therefore, unanimously, with chaste minds and holy affections, celebrate this birthday of the Lord on which we came into being according to the words “Truth is sprung out of the earth” (Psalm 85:11). For the following passage of the same psalm has already been fulfilled. When He who sprang from this earth, that is, who was born of flesh, ascended into heaven, then without a doubt “Justice hath looked down from heaven,” because He came from heaven and is above all men (John 3:31).”

Fred Sanders

Introduction

S. Mark Hamilton and Rhys Laverty