Augustine of Canterbury

divine will even if people sin against God. There is an important emphasis on ordering in one's life that must be founded on love, love of God, love of thyself, and love of neighbors. The situation at the time of St. Augustine was a need to create parameters on ethics. St Augustine was a Christian philosopher who lived in the 4th and 5th century AD during the decline of the Roman Empire. He was a bishop in the North African town called hippo for more than thirty years. He…

Augustine’s conversion played a very significant role in his life. It shaped him and his thoughts, especially towards doing God’s work. When he was not conversed yet, his sins and guilt made him feel uncomfortable. As he said in the beginning of Book (VIII) thus before he was conversed, (Thus I was sick at heart and in torment, accusing myself with a new intensity of bitterness, twisting and turning in my chain in the hope that it might be utterly broken! For what held me was small thing, but it…

Augustine lived right before the medieval period and sought happiness and to gain more wisdom. Augustine lived his life following Christianity, even though he was skeptic for a short period in his life. He became skeptic over the problem of evil, which states that God is all knowing, all good, and all-powerful but it raises the issue of why evil exists. Augustine was distraught over this issue, he found comfort in the Manichaeism solution to evil, which mentions the soul is all-good and seeks to…

In the Confession’s introduction, Augustine used repetition of grammatical forms in the same sentence, Isocolon. “The more Augustine learnt about astronomy, the greater the tension in his adherence to the Manichee faith.”(Introduction, XV) The sentence tells us how Augustine continued in association with astronomy and slowly ceased his belief in the Manichee community. Augustine reflects on his own speech, “But in these words what have I said, my God, my life, my holy sweetness?” (Bk. I, p.5)…

St. Augustine is one of the most remarkable philosophers in Christian history. St. Augustine was born in 354 AD to a pagan father and a devout Christian mother. Such families were common in that era as paganism was retreating, while Christianity was taking root. Despite the influence of her mother, Augustine was not baptized until his late thirties, and he led a pagan lifestyle. Augustine’s life was characterized by different religious beliefs and philosophies, and this gave him the command to…

Aptly titled, Confessions of St. Augustine, is a purging of Augustine’s mind and soul to God. He is alternately pouring out his sins of flesh and mind while praising God for allowing him to do so as well as atone for the sins of his youth. Frequently he relates tales of when he found himself compelled to sin and how, having found the err in his ways, he has turned his life to the study and worship of God through the Catholic church. Explanation, though not justification, comes in how he…

as it was turning into the medieval period, Augustine lived in the “late antiquity” days. He is a fascinating figure who brings together almost four centuries of debate and consolidation concerning Christian doctrine, while stemming from teachings of Plato, making himself a pivotal philosopher. He had a yearn for happiness and introspection, which is evidence to how powerful his mind truly is. With contribution entirely to the grace of God, Augustine created the mold that other great minds…

Furthermore, Augustine barely discusses the Father in his argumentation much less than the Holy Spirit or the Son. Throughout the text, Augustine argues for the three persons’ equality. He seems to find it much more important to prove and argue for the beings of the Son and the Holy Spirit than the Father. He should discuss all three persons equally. Augustine’s comparison of the mind to the Trinity is wrong. The mind, along with everything else, cannot be compared to the Trinity. The Holy…

Marcelina Delgado-Walker Saint Augustine of Hippo is one of the most influential philosophers of the early Christian faith. He lived from 354 AD to 430 AD in Northern Africa before traveling to study in Italy for several years. After his conversion, he moved back to Northern Africa, Algeria to be exact, and became a Catholic bishop. His birth and conversion occurred several years after Constantine had first declared Christianity to be a state religion and played an important role in…

The Catholic Church classifies pride, lust, gluttony, envy, greed, laziness, and wrath as the seven deadly sins. In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, he analyzes each of these sins and their influence on the lives of pilgrims making their way to Canterbury. Among these pilgrims, the reader would stumble upon a nun and a pardoner. Although the nun and the pardoner share employment in conjunction with the Catholic Church, the sins of which they are guilty differ immensely, as do their…