Truly, the idea of the conversion of the saint or the hero is beyond reality. Both are metaphors describing a fictitious character that may or may not exist. “That neither future nor past actually exist” (CAHN 397) declares Augustine in his Confessions. Dr. Ambrosio’s attempt to solidify the notion of universality with the integration of the hero and saint by discussing the character traits of historical figures as described in literature. The Saul of Tarsus, Augustine of Hippo, and the Prophet Mohammed are the three examples given to help the student understand the progression that our culture or society has evolved from and towards a direction that has helped generations of people walk in a manner that reflects living a life seeking
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Augustine severed human relationships for the divine relationship in order to fulfill the divine call, ie he sacrificed his family in order to take up the mantle of protecting the Christian faith from hearsay. All of these actions are elements of the saint, but Augustine’s conversion wasn’t from saint to hero. Rather the conversion was Augustine’s belief from a Roman Empire to that of the saintly idea of a City of God. Augustine’s established rhetoric skills during his hero days of his youth formed the foundation for his conversion. Augustine’s recorded works faithfully defended the divine relationship that Saul of Tarsus started, toward the goal of a City of God, totalization. In contrast, Augustine didn’t have the Hebrew up bringing but has roots in Manicheanism and the works of Virgil’s Aeneid and Aeneas leaves Dido contributed to his conversion. His life reflected the struggle similar to that of aegon of the hero. Augustine also adopted Plato’s model of education for developing …show more content…
They accomplished this with not only saintly characteristics, but also adding and adapting their lives with the character traits of the hero. “A synthesis which dreams of one world, one faith, one culture which would afford all human beings the opportunity to live as hero saints” (Ambrosio lecture 12). With the combination of both hero and saint, these figures in history directed the populous toward that divine relationship, not only individual relationship but as a community relationship, and a society as a whole. Unfortunately, the difference in method from the Christian group and the Islamic group has led to many great conflicts between these religious orders. These conflicts at times are very violent, leading men kill men. Dr. Ambrosio identifies the parallelism between the conflicts of different religions and the notion of death in relation to life. Or rather what is the relation that death and life have to each other, as we humans continue to pursue the meaning of
Augustine severed human relationships for the divine relationship in order to fulfill the divine call, ie he sacrificed his family in order to take up the mantle of protecting the Christian faith from hearsay. All of these actions are elements of the saint, but Augustine’s conversion wasn’t from saint to hero. Rather the conversion was Augustine’s belief from a Roman Empire to that of the saintly idea of a City of God. Augustine’s established rhetoric skills during his hero days of his youth formed the foundation for his conversion. Augustine’s recorded works faithfully defended the divine relationship that Saul of Tarsus started, toward the goal of a City of God, totalization. In contrast, Augustine didn’t have the Hebrew up bringing but has roots in Manicheanism and the works of Virgil’s Aeneid and Aeneas leaves Dido contributed to his conversion. His life reflected the struggle similar to that of aegon of the hero. Augustine also adopted Plato’s model of education for developing …show more content…
They accomplished this with not only saintly characteristics, but also adding and adapting their lives with the character traits of the hero. “A synthesis which dreams of one world, one faith, one culture which would afford all human beings the opportunity to live as hero saints” (Ambrosio lecture 12). With the combination of both hero and saint, these figures in history directed the populous toward that divine relationship, not only individual relationship but as a community relationship, and a society as a whole. Unfortunately, the difference in method from the Christian group and the Islamic group has led to many great conflicts between these religious orders. These conflicts at times are very violent, leading men kill men. Dr. Ambrosio identifies the parallelism between the conflicts of different religions and the notion of death in relation to life. Or rather what is the relation that death and life have to each other, as we humans continue to pursue the meaning of