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Saint Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine The Christian philosopher and theologian St. Augustine (354-430) is best known for "The Confessions" and "The City of God." After the authors of the New Testament, he has probably been the most influential Christian writer. The greatest of the Latin Fathers of the Church,... Read more |
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Saint Augustine (Latin Father)
Saint Augustine , Lat. Aurelius Augustinus, 354-430, one of the four Latin Fathers, bishop of Hippo (near present-day Annaba, Algeria), b. Tagaste (c.40 mi/60 km S of Hippo). Life Augustine's mother, St. Monica, was a great influence in his life. She brought him up as a Christian, but he gave up... Read more |
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Augustine Island
Augustine Island ô´gestēn, -tĬn; ôgŭs´tĬn , unihabited volcanic island, S Alaska, in Kamishak Bay at mouth of Cook Inlet. The active Augustine (or St. Augustine) volcano, which forms the entire island, rises to 4,134 ft (1,260 m); ash from its last major... Read more |
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Augustinians
Augustinians religious order in the Roman Catholic Church. The name derives from the Rule of St. Augustine (5th cent.?), which established rules for monastic observance and common religious life. The canons regular, made up of ordained clergy, adopted this rule in the 11th cent. and became known as... Read more |
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St. Augustine
Saint Augustine , city (1990 pop. 11,692), seat of St. Johns co., NE Fla.; inc. 1824. Located on a peninsula between the Matanzas and San Sebastian rivers, it is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by Anastasia Island; the Intracoastal Waterway passes through the city. St. Augustine is a port of... Read more |
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Paulus Orosius
Paulus Orosius , c.385-420, Iberian priest, theologian, and historian, b. Tarragona, Spain or Braga, Portugal. He went to see St. Augustine (c.413) and wrote, on request, a summary of the errors of Priscillian and of Origen. Augustine then sent him to Palestine to warn St. Jerome of the menace of... Read more |
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Saint Augustine of Canterbury
Saint Augustine of Canterbury ô´gestēn, -tĬn; ôgŭs´tĬn , d. c.605, Italian missionary, called the Apostle of the English, first archbishop of Canterbury (from 601). A Roman monk, he was sent to England, as the head of some 40 monks, by Pope St. Gregory I.... Read more |
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Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine , city (1990 pop. 11,692), seat of St. Johns co., NE Fla.; inc. 1824. Located on a peninsula between the Matanzas and San Sebastian rivers, it is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by Anastasia Island; the Intracoastal Waterway passes through the city. St. Augustine is a port of... Read more |
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theology
theology , in Christianity, the systematic study of the nature of God and God's relationship with humanity and with the world. Although other religions may be said to have theologies, this is a matter of controversy within, for instance, Judaism , which holds that God is unknowable. This article... Read more |
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Te Deum laudamus
Te Deum laudamus [Lat.,=we praise Thee, O God], early chant of the Western Church beginning, "We praise Thee, O God, we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord." Legend ascribes it to an ecstatic outburst of St. Ambrose when he baptized St. Augustine. It is now widely attributed to Bishop Nicetas of... Read more |
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Augustine, St, of Hippo
Augustine, St, of Hippo (354–430), was trained as a rhetorician and abandoned...hearing the sermons of Ambrose, a scene he vividly described in his Confessions (c.400), which contains a celebrated account of his early life... |
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flesh
...New Testaments by early Church Fathers such as St Augustine and St Jerome. By elaborating on the opposition and struggles...the body, ye shall live’ (8:13).In the Confessions, Augustine identifies the question of self-government... |
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Confessions of St Augustine, The
Confessions of St Augustine, The. The anti-Manichaean prose-poem written by St Augustine c.398–400. The title means both ‘confessing’ in the... |
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Augustine of Hippo, St
Augustine of Hippo, St (354–430). Christian father...the subject of his deeply moving Confessions.Augustine's influence on Christian thought...doctrines of the church and sacraments. Augustine's last battle was with the Pelagians... |
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Augustine
...feast day is 26 May.St Augustine of Hippo (354–430...famous prayer in his Confessions, ‘Give me chastity and...but not yet.’ Augustine was baptized by St Ambrose in 386 and...the writings of St Augustine. |
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Augustine, St, of Hippo
Augustine, St, of Hippo (354–430...his Christian mother ( St Monica) he was made...387 he was baptized by St Ambrose. He returned...death soon afterwards.Augustine's consecration as bishop...deeply anti-Manichaean Confessions ... |
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Ambrose, St
Ambrose, St (c.339–97), Doctor of the Church...responsible for the conversion of St Augustine of Hippo, and forced the emperor...sometimes shown with a scourge.In the Confessions of St Augustine, he is noted as reading ... |
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moral theology
...became urgent. In the W. St Augustine's adaptation of classical...Aristotelianism in the 13th cent. St Thomas Aquinas linked...frequency of sacramental confession. The most renowned moral...theologian in modern times is St Alphonsus Liguori. ... |
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Reformation, the
...abuses attending the sale of indulgences. His study of St Augustine had led him to question devotional practices and the emphasis...or shortly after their classic enunciation in the ‘Confession of Augsburg’ (1530). These rulers reorganized... |
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Images of Conversion in St. Augustine's 'Confessions.'
...three conversions in Augustine's life, which he...7, and 8 of his Confessions. O'Connell has taken...analysis of the images Augustine used in describing...early dialogues and the Confessions present two quite different...Confessions describe ... |
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The Confessions of St. Augustine
The Confessions of St. Augustine. Extracts selected and translated by Carolinne White. Eerdmans...should probably commit himself to reading the Confessions of St. Augustine in its entirety, even if it takes a lifetime. Written ... |
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The Confessions of St. Augustine. (Book briefs).(Brief Article)
The Confessions of St. Augustine extracts selected and translated by Caroline White (Eerdmans, 2001). Narrative, colourful anecdotes and poetry from the Confessions illustrated with beautiful illuminated manuscripts from the British Library. |
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Hippo hop. (News Bites).(Gerard Depardieu announced that, at the pope's...
* Hippo Hop. French actor Gerard Depardieu announced that, at the pope's request, he would recite from the Confessions of St. Augustine of Hippo in squares and churches around the world as a way of enriching the faithful worldwide. |
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Images of Conversion in St. Augustine's Confessions.(Brief Article)
...00--Following upon his Soundings in St. Augustine's Imagination, O'Connell is sensitive...other--found in the discursive language of St. Augustine's classic work. In the Confessions, the overarching image of conversion he... |
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Quote by Augustine, St. on Confession.(Quotation)
QUOTE: "The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works." --Augustine, St. SUBJECT: Confession |
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The Confession of Augustine. (Reviews). (book review)
...Nevertheless, the importance of The Confession of Augustine lies not in what Lyotard has to say about Augustine's Confessions--the Patristics scholar, the...this interest in confession and St. Augustine by ... |
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The Confession of Augustine. (Book reviews: summaries and comments *).
...Confession of Augustine. Translated...leaving his Confession d'Augustin...about the `Confessions' of St. Augustine" (April 25...book about the Confessions as it is an...own odyssey: ... |
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Confessions of Depardieu: thanks to the Pope, he has turned to Augustine to...
...the saint's life. He began to read the Confessions, became fascinated but decided that no film could do justice to St Augustine's power of language. "St Augustine is about `why?'. It's the mystery of... |
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The Inner Courtyard - Garry Wills examines Augustine's philosophy of memory...
...of philosophy at St. Olaf College...Book Info:SAINT AUGUSTINE'S MEMORY Confessiones...of human life. Augustine's City of God...world, but in his Confessions one sees him wrestling...s Childhood: Confessions (2002), concerned...biography, ... |
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