Augustine of Hippo (/ɔːˈɡʌstɪn/, /əˈɡʌstɪn/, or /ˈɔːɡʌstɪn/; Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430 AD), also known as Saint Augustine or Saint Austin, is known by various cognomens throughout the many denominations of the Christian world, including Blessed Augustine and the Doctor of Grace (Latin: Doctor gratiae). Immorality, e.g. Augustine confessed he had not been a lover of wedlock so much as a slave of lust, so he procured another concubine since he had to wait two years until his fiancée came of age. [222]:172, 173, 222, 242, 254, Augustine became coadjutor Bishop of Hippo in 395, and since he believed that conversion must be voluntary, his appeals to the Donatists were verbal. "St. Augustine: from The Literal Meaning of Genesis." ", Bibliography : The fundamental roots of the Donatists and Augustine's nuanced treatment of them", "Robert Markus: Medieval historian noted for his writings on the early Church", "Herbert L. 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He became an expert both in the eloquent use of the language and in the use of clever arguments to make his points. According to Professor Deepak Lal, Augustine's vision of the heavenly city has influenced the secular projects and traditions of the Enlightenment, Marxism, Freudianism and eco-fundamentalism. Augustine won the job and headed north to take his position in Milan in late 384. St. Augustine, also called Saint Augustine of Hippo, original Latin name Aurelius Augustinus, (born November 13, 354, Tagaste, Numidia [now Souk Ahras, Algeria]—died August 28, 430, Hippo Regius [now Annaba, Algeria]; feast day August 28), bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430, one of the Latin Fathers of the Church and perhaps the most significant Christian thinker after St. Paul. San Pietro fell into disrepair, but was finally rebuilt in the 1870s, under the urging of Agostino Gaetano Riboldi, and reconsecrated in 1896 when the relics of Augustine and the shrine were once again reinstalled.[93][94]. [240], Thomas Aquinas was influenced heavily by Augustine. He is invoked against sore eyes.[24]. One reason for this interpretation is the passage in Sirach 18:1, creavit omnia simul ("He created all things at once"), which Augustine took as proof the days of Genesis 1 had to be taken non-literalistically. 'It was foul, and I loved it. [167] For instance he stated that "He [Jesus] walked here in the same flesh, and gave us the same flesh to be eaten unto salvation. Augustine was one of the first Christian ancient Latin authors with a very clear vision of theological anthropology. However, he also stated that baptism, while it does not confer any grace when done outside the Church, does confer grace as soon as one is received into the Catholic Church. Copyright 2020 Catholic Online. To this was added the figure of the mother, Monica, so as to let the transformation appear by experience rather than the dramatic artifice of deus ex machina. [214] [200] He rejected homicidal attitudes, quoting part of the same prophecy, namely "Slay them not, lest they should at last forget Thy law" (Psalm 59:11). For it does many things through vicious desire, as though in forgetfulness of itself. [169] For example, in his work On Christian Doctrine, Augustine referred to the Eucharist as a "figure" and a "sign. Apart from those, Augustine is probably best known for his Confessions, which is a personal account of his earlier life, and for De civitate Dei (The City of God, consisting of 22 books), which he wrote to restore the confidence of his fellow Christians, which was badly shaken by the sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410. Thou didst gleam and shine, and didst chase away my blindness. Augustine of Hippo (/ɔːˈɡʌstɪn/; Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430 AD[20]), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian, philosopher, and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. [191] Only a few Christians accepted Augustine's view of free will until the Protestant Reformation when both Luther and Calvin embraced Augustine's deterministic teachings wholeheartedly. Augustine explains that when the purpose of persecution is to lovingly correct and instruct, then it becomes discipline and is just. Because of his education, Augustine had great rhetorical prowess and was very knowledgeable of the philosophies behind many faiths. [110] However, he considered procreation as one of the goods of marriage; abortion figured as a means, along with drugs that cause sterility, of frustrating this good. [189] Free Will Baptist scholar Ken Wilson argues that every early Christian author with extant writings who wrote on the topic prior to Augustine of Hippo (412) advanced human free choice rather than a deterministic God. The hermits did not believe so; the canons affirmed they were. Thou wast with me, but I was not with thee. 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