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| | Augustine [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
 | | Augustine tries to reconcile his beliefs about freewill, especially the belief that humans are morally responsible for their actions, with his belief that one’s life is predestined. | | | It has been thought that Augustine's anti-Pelagian teaching grew out of his conception of the Church and its sacraments as a means of salvation; and attention was called to the fact that before the Pelagian controversy this aspect of the Church had, through the struggle with the Donatists, assumed special importance in his mind. | | | Augustine’s theological discussion of freewill is relevant to a non-religious discussion regardless of the religious specific language he uses; one can switch Augustine’s “omnipotent being” and “original sin” explanation of predestination for the present day “biology” explanation of predestination; the latter tendency is apparent in modern slogans such as “biology is destiny.” |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/augustin.htm
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| | Western North African Christianity/ Augustine of Hippo |
| | Augustine used this model to explain why God, who had used the city of Rome to prepare the way for the coming of Christ, no longer needed it now that Christ had come and the gospel had spread. | | | As he was growing up, Augustine rejected the Christian (both Catholic and Donatist) anwer to the problem of evil, largely because he saw Christianty as an unsophisticated religion for peasants and women. | | | Augustine attacked Pelagianism on two levels: the doctrine of original sin and its theological counterpart the doctrine of salvation by grace alone. |
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http://www.bethel.edu/~letnie/AfricanChristianity/WNAAugustine.html
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| | Saint Augustine |
| | In 391, Augustine was reluctantly ordained as a priest by the congregation of Hippo Regius (a not uncommon practice in Northern Africa), in 395 he was made Bishop, and he died August 430 in Hippo, thirty-five years later, as the Vandals were besieging the gates of the city. | | | These uncertainties notwithstanding, Augustine himself makes it clear that it was his encounter with the the books of the Platonists that made it possible for him to view both the Church and its scriptural tradition as having an intellectually satisfying and, indeed, resourceful content. | | | However, Augustine's enduring ambivalence on the the question of the soul leaves open the possibility that the physical/sensible realm is more than an arena of danger and that it is in fact a fundamentally alien context, not altogether different from the Manichean view of embodiment as a kind of entrapment. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine
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| | Augustine of Hippo |
| | Against them, Augustine maintained that the holiness of the Church is not derived from the average level of virtue of its individual members, but is derived from the Holiness of its Head, who is Christ. | | | For a long time Augustine was attracted by the teachings of Manicheeism, named for Mani, a Persian who had preached kind of synthesis of Christianity with Zoroastrianism, the dominant religion of Persia. | | | After his conversion, Augustine went back to his native Africa in 387, where he was ordained a priest in 391 and consecrated bishop of Hippo in 396. |
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http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/Augustine_Hippo.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Augustine of Hippo |
| | Augustine himself tells us that he was enticed by the promises of a free philosophy unbridled by faith; by the boasts of the Manichæans, who claimed to have discovered contradictions in Holy Writ; and, above all, by the hope of finding in their doctrine a scientific explanation of nature and its most mysterious phenomena. | | | The history of Augustine's struggles with the Donatists is also that of his change of opinion on the employment of rigorous measures against the heretics; and the Church in Africa, of whose councils he had been the very soul, followed him in the change. | | | One day, having been summoned to Hippo by a friend whose soul's salvation was at stake, he was praying in a church when the people suddenly gathered about him, cheered him, and begged Valerius, the bishop, to raise him to the priesthood. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm
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| | Saint Augustine of Hippo |
| | Augustine's reputation and zeal won followers, but a few Donatists were so exasperated by him as to preach that to kill him would be a great service to their religion and meritorious before God. | | | In infancy Augustine was marked with the sign of the cross and enrolled among the catechumens, and later instructed in the tenets of the Christian religion. | | | Throughout his thirty-five years as bishop of Hippo Augustine was continually defending the faith against heresies or paganism. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/AUGUSTN2.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Teaching of St. Augustine of Hippo |
| | Augustine's dogmatic mission (in a lower sphere and apart from inspiration) recalls that of Paul in the preaching of the Gospel. | | | The Council of Trent was therefore faithful to the true spirit of the African Doctor, and maintained pure Augustinism in the bosom of the Church, by Its definitions against the two opposite excesses. | | | Numerous and solemn are the eulogies of St. Augustine's doctrine pronounced by the popes. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02091a.htm
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| | Augustine, Saint (354-430) |
| | Augustin: Sermon on the Mount; Harmony of the Gospels; Homilies on the Gospels | | | Bishop of Hippo and "Doctor of the Church" | | | Description: In The Confessions, Saint Augustine addressed himself eloquently and passionately to the enduring spiritual questions that have stirred the minds and hearts of thoughtful men since time began. |
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http://www.ccel.org/a/augustine
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| | Pope John Paul II 28 August 1986 Augustine of Hippo |
| | Augustine of Hippo, who, scarcely one year after his death, was called "one of the best teachers" of the Church by my distant predecessor, St. Celestine I,[1] has been present ever since in the life of the Church and in the mind and culture of the whole western world. | | | Augustine's legacy to the theologians, whose meritorious task is to study more deeply the contents of the faith, is the immense patrimony of his thought, which is as a whole valid even now; above all, his legacy is the theological method to which he remained absolutely faithful. | | | Augustine related to his mother his serene and strong decision: "Then we went to my mother and related the matter to her: she rejoiced. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/JP2AUGUS.HTM
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| | Saint Augustine of Hippo |
| | Augustine must be reckoned as one of the architects of the unified Christianity that survived the barbarian invasions of the 5th century and emerged as the religion of medieval Europe. | | | Augustine's counterattack emphasized unity, not division, as the mark of true Christianity and insisted that the validity of the sacraments depended on Christ himself, not on any human group or institution. | | | The first part of Augustine's life (to 391) can be seen as a series of attempts to reconcile his Christian faith with his classical culture. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txn/august.htm
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| | Augustine |
| | He was named the Christian bishop of Hippo (Annaba, Algeria) in 396, and devoted the remaining decades of his life to the formation of an ascetic religious community. | | | You might be interested in viewing portions of a Dutch library's copy of a fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript of this text. | | | ) (413-427) Augustine distinguished religion and morality from politics and tried to establish the proper relations among them, arguing for the church's strict independence from (if not its outright superiority to) the civil state. |
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http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/augu.htm
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| | The Classical Library - Augustine of Hippo |
| | Under the influence of his mother, Monnica, and the preaching of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Augustine was led to true faith in Christ and was baptized in 387. | | | He returned to North Africa in 391, and was unexpectedly chosen by the people of Hippo to become a priest. | | | Four years later, he was chosen to be Bishop of Hippo. |
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http://www.classicallibrary.org/augustine
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| | St. Augustine of Hippo - Catholic Online |
| | Through the prayers of his holy mother and the marvelous preaching of St. Ambrose, Augustine finally became convinced that Christianity was the one true religion. | | | He was baptized, became a priest, a bishop, a famous Catholic writer, Founder of religious priests, and one of the greatest saints that ever lived. | | | It was just what Augustine needed, for in it, St. Paul says to put away all impurity and to live in imitation of Jesus. |
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http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=418
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| | Augustine |
| | Augustine page in the Ecole hypertext encyclopedia on early church history | | | "Friendship as Adultery: Social Reality and Sexual Metaphor in Augustine's Doctrine of Original Sin." Augustinian Studies 23 (December 1992): 125-147. | | | For the Joy Set Before Us: Augustine and Self-Denying Love. |
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http://personal.stthomas.edu/gwschlabach/aug.htm
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| | Philosophers : Saint Augustine |
| | Augustine, a voluminous writer on the subject of philosophy and its relation to religion is considered one of the most important church fathers of old. | | | Beginning with his Confessions(c400) Augustine chronicled his life and conversion to Christianity from Manichaeanism. |
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http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/phil/philo/phils/augustine.html
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| | St. Augustine of Hippo |
| | Considered to be one of the most outstanding theologians in the history of the Catholic Church, Augustine was born in North Africa in 354 A.D. and died there in 430. | | | There are a great many web pages devoted to him and his thought. | | | Because there are so many things said about him, this listing is somewhat sloppy in its distinctions. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1534/august.html
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| | The Ecole Glossary |
| | Augustine (354- 430 CE), bishop, Doctor of the Church, and the most influential theologian of Latin Christianity, was born of a Christian mother and a heathen father. | | | In 391, he was almost forcibly ordained presbyter at Hippo, and from 395 to 430, he served as bishop. | | | Ambrose, bishop of Milan, and Augustine's mother, Monica, were instrumental in his conversion to Catholic Christianity in 386, though this was facilitated by Augustine's study of Plotinus' Neoplatonism, which gave him an intellectual access to mystical/spiritual experience. |
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http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/glossary/augustine.html
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| | Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD) took great pains to create and project a powerful image of himself beyond the churches and towns where he wrote and taught in Roman north Africa. | | | Augustine may have been the first saint to find a home page on the Internet and he has dwelled here, in a comfortable corner of the afterlife, since early 1994. | | | April 2001: Augustine in Algeria: In April, 2001, an international conference on Augustine was held in Algiers and Annaba (= Hippo Regius) under the joint sponsorship of the Algerian and Swiss governments. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine/intro.html
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| | Patron Saints Index: Saint Augustine of Hippo |
| | Augustine finally broke with the Manichaeans and was converted by the prayers of his mother and the help of Saint Ambrose of Milan, who baptized him. | | | A summation of his thinking at the time comes from his Confessions: "God, give me chastity and continence - but not just now." | | | On the death of his mother he returned to Africa, sold his property, gave the proceeds to the poor, and founded a monastery. |
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http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainta02.htm
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