Augustine of Hippo

Augustine’s Deep Thoughts of Sin and Suffering Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, is unarguably one of the most influential church fathers whose views have helped shape modern protestant theology. He largely contributed to shaping a bible-focused theology that transformed Europe and the majority of the world, and many modern theologians dream of reaching the international stature that Augustine did. But to reach that stage that Augustine got to, did not come easy. He went through a lot of doubts…

world today, the relationship between science and religion is build upon several defining moments. The most famous controversies within the relationship of science and religion involve respectable philosophers, theologians and scientist such as Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas, Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, William Paley, Charles Darwin and George Lemaitre disputing the true answers of some of life’s most important questions. Several disagreements include the debate between a…

Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies. Augustine as Mentor: A Model for Preparing Spiritual Leaders would originally be developed as his dissertation to achieve his Ph.D. in Historical Theology from the University of Wales in Lampeter, UK. Book Summary In Augustine as Mentor, Dr. Edward Smither begins a comprehensive reflection of the relationships between Yeshua and his disciples and continues the journey until reaching the mentoring styles of Augustine of Hippo in the fourth century.…

Muller and Wiener, 2015) as he fulfills his personal responsibilities? Just because your family is starving, does not make it right to steal a steak. “Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.” (Augustine of Hippo as cited in Goodreads, 2017). He is still using Middle Eastern…

medieval philosopher and church scholar St. Augustine of Hippo defended the Christian faith in his book “The City of God.” In the novel he says the Roman Empire fell because it was not founded on the principals of peace and also that the idea war of self-defense is the only form of a just war that is acceptable. In fact, in his book, Augustine explains how the Roman Republic was created on virtuous grounds, but in its transition to an Empire it grew corrupt. Augustine acknowledges that most…

race. In his research, he found that geography, the domestication of animals, immunity to germs, food production, and the use of steel were why societies were more successful than others which relates with other unilineal evolutionist, like Augustine of Hippo, E.B. Tylor and L.H. Morgan because they believe that diffusions are one of the explanations for cultural differences and similarities among societies and all these evolutionists believe that societies…

Augustine of Hippo was a Roman bishop whose main philosophy on Christianity was to not focus on the earthly part of life but the spiritual. He would write The City of God which would try to defend Christianity after Rome is taken down by the Goths. Augustine would state that with the end of the world there would be judgment day, and the devil along with his multitude of sinners…

In his speech to Congress, Pope Francis issued a call to action to lawmakers that would initially challenge the moral boundaries of federal spending, along with other moral issues. These other issues include climate change, the environment, immigration and the death penalty. Of course he addressed the issues in a Catholic view, but he also lectured in a political sense. He knew what he was going into and knew exactly what the issues in our country were. Pope Francis offers suggestions on how we…

Alexandria, Alexander written in 320 C.E. Christians in Synod, Egypt became anger so Constantine stepped in, ordering a creed to resolve the issue. The most influential theologian in Western Civilian, Augustine of Hippo, North Africa wrote his autobiographical book named Confessions in 397 C.E. In this book Augustine illustrated how he had a rough time devoting himself to Christ because of his sinful past but overcame his struggles to become a renowned theologian. Later The Life of St. Theodore…

Augustine Answer to Critics in the City of God Augustine finished the City of God in 429 A. D., a year before his death. He had witnessed the collapse of the Roman civilization in the West for nearly three decades. A leader in the Christian church, he was the Bishop of Hippo, a North African Roman city that fell to barbarians in the same year as his death. In response to Roman military disasters, pagan critics had argued that the shift to Christianity from the traditional state gods in…