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Augustine of Hippo (/ ɔː ˈ ɡ ʌ s t ɪ n / aw-GUST-in, US also / ˈ ɔː ɡ ə s t iː n / AW-gə-steen; [22] Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), [23] also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.
In AD 430, the Vandals advanced eastwards along the North African coast and laid siege to the walled city of Hippo Regius. [ citation needed ] Inside, Saint Augustine and his priests prayed for relief from the invaders, knowing full well that the fall of the city would spell death or conversion to the Arian confession for much of the Christian ...
Restless Heart: The Confessions of Saint Augustine (distributed in the US as: Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire, Italian: Sant'Agostino) is a 2010 two-part television miniseries chronicling the life of St. Augustine, [1] the early Christian theologian, writer and Bishop of Hippo Regius at the time of the Vandal invasion (AD 430).
St. Augustine (354–430) believed that the determinism of astrology conflicted with the Christian doctrines of man's free will and responsibility, and God not being the cause of evil, [1] [2] but he also grounded his opposition philosophically, citing the failure of astrology to explain twins who behave differently although conceived at the ...
Early church fathers prior to Augustine of Hippo (354–430) refuted non-choice predeterminism as being pagan. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Out of the fifty early Christian authors who wrote on the debate between free will and determinism , all fifty supported Christian free will against Stoic , Gnostic, and Manichean determinism.
Likely completed in AD 415, this work was Augustine's second attempt to literally interpret the Genesis narrative. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] De Genesi ad litteram is divided into 12 books and discusses the seven days of creation (books 1–5), the second creation narrative and the Garden of Eden story (books 6–11), and the " Third Heaven " mentioned in 2 ...
Saint Augustine or Augustine of Hippo (354–430) was a bishop, theologian and father of the Latin Catholic Church. ... St Augustine of Canterbury School ...
On the Christian Doctrine, transl. by J. F. Shaw, in: St. Augustine: City of God and Christian Doctrine (Kindle Edition), Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of The Christian Church, Edinburgh: T&T Clark. Woo, B. Hoon (2013). "Augustine's Hermeneutics and Homiletics in De doctrina Christiana". Journal of Christian Philosophy.