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Build on the rock. One hard question of the faith, trusted voices across the Church’s traditions — kinship and honest difference.
Three questions, nine voices: How does the believer put sin to death? · How does Scripture hold the Church in one faith? · What are the two cities?
One book to start. Then go deeper, voice by voice.
Putting Sin to Death
How does the believer put sin to death?
The question’s four-voice reader: whole chapters from all four writers, side by side — where they agree, where they honestly differ, and what each teaches for the day in front of you.
Knowing What Is True
How does the Christian know what is true?
The question’s four-voice reader: whole chapters, whole parts, and whole lectures from all four writers, side by side — where they agree, where they honestly differ, and a daily discipline for weighing what you’re taught.
The City of God
What are the two cities?
Eleven whole books of Augustine’s answer to the fall of Rome — the books where the argument is made, each with an argument trace that ends in the modern debates.
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Thirty essays arranged for reading straight through: a companion on the mat, telling the truth about worth received, not earned — the wound held, not healed. Light endnotes to the Christian tradition; Scripture and Subject indexes.
The complete Institutes: monastic life, prayer, and remedies for the eight principal faults — a map of the inner life you can still use with modern people.
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Ascetical Homilies (Selected)
Twenty-eight homilies on repentance, the passions, watchfulness, and mercy — desert counsel for hearts that want healing, not mere restraint.
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A Catholic handbook for spiritual combat: distrust of self, trust in God, and daily warfare with the passions — built for direction and personal rule.
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Often where groups start
Owen’s short classic on putting sin to death in those already justified — restored so his method stays visible for deep reading, not a quick PDF skim.
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Available now · Official publication August 15, 2026
Short classic · often where groups start
Tertullian’s short classic on the Rule of Faith — the whole case in one sitting. Truth is not won by private Scripture-dueling with heretics; the Christian knows by receiving the apostolic deposit held in the churches.
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The Christian knows by being handed the one faith from Scripture in the Church’s catechesis. Cyril does not argue the creed; he delivers it.
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The Christian knows by Scripture and antiquity tested against novelty. Reform is not invention; it is the recovery of the primitive faith.
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The Christian knows by discerning true development from corruption. An idea expands in the mind while preserving its identity; the seven notes tell development from corruption.
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Available now · Official publication September 23, 2026
The Two Cities — The Vital Books, Selected
The single-voice reader: eleven of the twenty-two books of The City of God printed whole — the books where the argument is made — each with a one-page opener and an argument trace that ends in the modern debates, with bridge summaries across the books not printed, so the arc never goes dark.