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St. Augustine: Sources of Sublimity

1. Conceive thoughts


2. Emotion


3. figure of speech


4. Noble words


5. Effect of dignity


6. Ordinary -> Extraordinary


7. State of "awe"

St. Augustine: 4 types of oratory

1. Apologists (believers)


2. Polemicists (heretics)


3. Preachers (Christians)


4. Christian Epideictic (sermon)

St. Augustine: Argument of Presentation

God exists in a timeless present and knows all things

St. Augustine: Theory of free will

Humans choose between sin and sin

St. Augustine: De Doctrina Christiana

Secular learning is bad unless it can be tied to the bible

St. Augustine as a teacher

Taught rhetoric

St. Augustine believed sophists were...

Deceitful and anti-Christian

St. Augustine Writings

-Wrote on Christian doctrine


-Grounded ideas in Bible


-Goal: compose treatise that would give preacher the substance and form of preaching


-1st manual on Christian rhetoric

St. Augustine's definition of sublime

True sublime elevates us and gives us a sense of pride