Augustine of Hippo

Lord Will You Make Me Clean? Matthew 8:1-4 NIV 1When Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him; 2 and there was a leper who came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean.” 3 He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I do choose. Be made clean!” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. 4 Then Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as…

Confessions is St. Augustine 's extended prayer of thanks to God. Augustine is raised in a Christian household, but as he grows older, his faith wanders and his soul becomes chained to lower goods. Through God 's grace, Augustine experiences a conversion in which his reason and will become one - his soul is finally at peace with God. Augustine 's journey towards restoring his faith and returning to God can be seen in how he reacts, and later reflects, on the deaths of Dido, his unnamed friend,…

Hedonism is typically defined as, “The belief that pleasure or happiness is the most important goal in life”. While this can be achieved in numerous ways, ultimately the underlining goal in every individuals’ life is achieve unwithering happiness and pleasure. When one decides on a career, a car, a house, a family, or even when following a religion it is the ultimate goal that these worldly objects in the end bring you happiness and satisfaction. However, not always is it morally correct to find…

strong recurring theme. In everything that Augustine did or tried, he was accompanied by misery. Even in things that gave him joy, he found a unexplainable bitterness. Augustine’s question for his misery was in fact answered within the very first paragraph of the work. Looking back on his life, Augustine remarks, “You [God] stir man to take pleasure in praising you, because you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you” (Augustine 3). Without a relationship with…

Saint Augustine’s “Confessions” is written to explain Saint Augustine’s conversion to Christianity. It is important to note that even though “Confessions” is an autobiography, the author is not the exact same person as the Augustine character that appears in the text. The author uses “Confessions” to argue that the motives and manner in how education is taught, such as Augustine’s schooling and Manichee teachings, puts the focus on pleasure of oneself and others. As a result, this strays oneself…

We live in a world where our possessions are a symbol of success. The bigger the car the louder that speaks about your bank account. Most people buy things as just something to do here in America. We are a particularly wasteful society. There is an uneven distribution of wealth and the poor can live right in the same neighborhood as the ultra rich. Most of the people here plan their lives around what will make them successful. They use the word success as a way of saying “well off enough to buy…

In the letter Confessions, Saint Augustine, a converted Christian man from “humble beginnings” writes a collection of letters to God, detailing his struggle with sin and temptation more specifically regarding his sexual tensions. In the second book of his collection, Augustine depicts his first encounter of sin and temptation as a youth. In a few brief lines, Augustine creates a highly detailed scenario that is rich in interpretation. This passage entices…

meaning in ways that is unthinkable to grasp or understand. RM (8:26-30) verse has always been around; however, this verse has been translated and understand in many different ways throughout time. These different ways include: in Augustine in the Rebuke and Grace, Augustine in the Predestination, Thomas Aquinas, Summa, and Bible Hub. Rebuke and Grace In the Rebuke and Grace RM 8:26-30 it states” they were called in accord with his plane (PG117). The Rebuke and Grace believe that God chooses…

LIFE OF HERLUIN, (VITA HERLUINI), by Gilbert Crispin (1045-1117) Analysis of lines 8-20, page 8 Gilbert Crispin (1045-1117), the author of the possible foundation narrative or pseudo-hagiography - from the Greek, meaning ‘holy writing’ - Vita Herluini, as it was originally titled in Latin, was a theologian, monk at the Abbey of Bec, and ultimately the Abbot of Westminster (1085). Consequently, Crispin spent much of his life in the Abbey of Bec, alongside Herluin and later on, Lanfranc,…

In the sixth century, the Christian philosopher Boethius explored the problem of God’s omniscience and the effect it might have on our moral freedom. He was particularly concerned about the judgement of God, and whether it would be equitable of God to praise or blame people if they didn’t have any real moral freedom and were constrained by what God already knew about the future. Boethius wrote his book “The consolations of Philosophy” when he was a prisoner to explain why he, who was believed…