...Augustine of Hippo, around 410 AD, created a work to explain to us why earth will never be able to live up to the heavens. He sets up two cities, an earthly city, modeled after Rome, and a heavenly city. In the earthly city, the people are always uneasy even though they have achieved much. “The rich man is anxious with fears, pining with discontent, burning with covetousness, never secure, always, panting from the perpetual strife of his enemies, adding to his patrimony indeed by these miseries to an immense degree, and by these additions also heaping up most bitter cares.”(362) In the heavenly city though the people have little, they have peace and family. “That other man of moderate wealth is contented with a small and compact estate, most...
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...INTRO : Topologists have debated the doctrine of original sin for centuries, but the one who stated it more clearly was Apostle Paul in Romans 5:12 Paul makes it known that sin entered through Adam and then spread to all of humanity. It is based on Paul’s writing that Saint Augustine expanded his theory on the notion of original sin and its relationship with the human free will. This essay will discuss these two views concerning original sin and free will, by first providing a brief description of Augustine of Hippo and his origins. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO : Augustine of Hippo or Saint Augustine ( 354- 430) bishop of Hippo, was one of the most important figures in the development of Christianity.. However this influential person was not born a Christian. As a young man, Augustine pursued a secular career as a teacher of rhetoric and philosophy while living a dissolute lifestyle. For nine years he was a follower of Manichaeism. In Milan he studied Neoplatonism and his conversion to Christianity took place in 386. As a theologian, he was called to write against the many heresies of the period Manichaeanism, Donatism, and Pelagianism, and in so doing he defined the shape of orthodox doctrine. ORIGINAL SIN AND FREE WILL “For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do. this I keep on doing” Roman 7:19 In this quote , Pau shows that mankind can tell the difference between wright and wrong. However, despite our intellect something influences us to...
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...St. Augustine of Hippo, commonly referred to as the great doctor of the church, was born in the town of Thagaste, North Africa, in the year 354, and died in the year 430. Born as Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, St. Augustine lived a long life that was filled with countless stories and lessons. His early life, which he describes as “corrupt,” was surrounded with satisfying unruly desires and conflicting world views. His “quest for love,” began when he was young, but progressively reshaped as he grew older. After his conversion to Christianity, he set out to write a spiritual autobiography that displayed both prayers and events to recollect his life in his book, Confessions. St. Augustine’s journey from a sinner to a wisely religious man is just one on the many reasons that he is so well known today....
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...PSYC-2314-004 Journal 1 Childhood is a period of an individual’s life that allows the child to grow strong and confident from the encouragement of their family. Being young should be enjoyed with the little responsibilities and challenges that will soon approach in adulthood. Luckily, my parents encouraged me to be a child before the young stages of my life came to an end. My mother and father have always been considerate and loving toward my brother and me. Not only did they express kindness toward us but they slightly would tell us strictly what we should not do. For that, we never developed a sense of fear for our parents like other children that lived under a strict household had. I was allowed to get dirt on my clothes and play with kids that I had never met on the playground without getting yelled at. From the beginning, my parents have always allowed me to choose freely on the activities I want to join or continue on doing. I remember when I was about 5 or 6 years old, my mother signed me up to join a dance class because I was always dancing around the house. However, when I had to start dancing in front of other children and the instructor I felt very uncomfortable and nervous about everyone staring at me. After the first day my mother let me decide if I would want to attend the dance class the next day. I believe this action was very efficient and effective because I was able to play soccer which was much more enjoyable for me. The situation could have been my mother...
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...Christmas Hippo I. One of the joys of Christmas for me is the Christmas music that is played on the radio. I specifically like to hear the music on the radio rather than the music I have on my phone and at my command. The reason for that is not only am I getting in the mood for Christmas but also the world is getting ready. A. One of my Favorite songs to hear is I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas There a young Girl sings about her desire to have a Hippopotamus for Christmas. In her mind nothing else will satisfy her B. Gayle Peveley sings of her joy and vision of this Hippo that she so badly desires. One of my favorite lines in that songs is the excuse mom gives The Hippo will eat you up but the child replies that the teacher said Hippos are vegetarians. II. One of my other Joys at Christmas is watching the Christmas movies. Many of the shows I like to watch. It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th ST, A Christmas Carol, and of course A Christmas Story. A. In the movie A Christmas Story Ralphy is try to convince his parents Santa Clause to bring him a BB gun for Christmas. My Christmas I. I can remember the Christmases of my own where I spent much of my time dreaming through the JC Penny and the Sears Catalogs. A. I too asked for a BB gun on many occasions. Trying to reason with my mother of why I needed one. B. It seems the more we are given the more useless the gift is we ask for. C. My mother was a very practical person. Most of the things I got for Christmas...
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...Jory Roberts Math and Logic Tuesday and Thursday, 2 p.m. The hippo problem The hippo problem is a difficult problem to solve. It took me quite some time to solve this problem and I had to employ multiple heuristics in order to solve this problem. In the paper that follows I hope to not only demonstrate how I personally came to the conclusion of solving this problem, but also to help someone else solve a similar problem in the future. The steps in which I took to solve the hippo problem were many, and like any good problem, there is a first step that one must take in order to solve the problem. The first step I took is to re state the problem. "Jill is the chief hippo caretaker at the wild animal park in san Diego, California. She has just arrived at the cargo dock in the downtown harbor to pick up four hippos. In order to complete the paperwork, she needs to weigh each hippo. The only scale available is a cargo scale that starts at 300 Kg. More than one of the hippos weights. Jill is puzzled for a few moments, then gets an idea of weighing them in pairs, thinking that if she gets the weight of each pair, she can figure out the weights of the individual hippos. The weights for the first five pairs are 312, 356, 378, 444, 466. As she weighs the last pair the scale breaks. What was the weight of the last pair? and what are the weights of the individual hippos". That is the problem in its entirety. As you can see, it is quite a complex problem. In the paragraphs...
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...Saint Augustine, also know us Saint Augustine of Hippo, Aurelius Augustinus. he was in Thagaste , Souk Ahras, Algeria Nov. 13, 354, Tagaste , died Aug. 28, 430, Hippo Regius, feast day August 28, bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430, . The father of St. Augustine was a pagan who converted on his death bed and his mother was Saint Monica, a devout Christian. St. Augustine received a Christian upbringing and in 370 went to the University at Carthage to study rhetoric with a view to becoming a lawyer. St. Augustine gave up to be lawyer and to devote himself to literary pursuits and gradually abandoned his Christian faith ,he taking a mistress with whom he lived fifteen years and who bore him a son, Adeodatus, in 372 and afteran investigating...
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...Rome. He went from only having a small place in the council, to Govenor, and finally Bishop. He went from being a unbaptized layman to bishop in eight days. As bishop, he adopted a self-denying lifestyle he gave his money to the poor and donated all of his land, making only a home for his sister Marcellina. He had total control of the cultural and political life of his age.He stopped Arianism for as long as he could until the Arians became so strong he had only the choice to profess Arianism. He then tried to stop the building of two Arian churches Milan and warned young Christians against intermarriage with Jews. He also led the charge to the persecution of Paganism. Ambrose was the teacher who converted and baptized St. Augustine of Hippo, and was a model bishop who viewed the church as rising above the ruins of the Roman Empire. He composed multiple beautiful hymns. Ambrose’s position was not challenged even after death, he was a model for other bishops to follow. He always protected Christianity from other new methods trying to make their way in, such as the Pagans. He was suceeded by Simplician. His body can still be seen on display in the church of s. ambrogio in Milan, as one of the oldest existing bodies in the world outside of Egypt. "Saint Ambrose." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2012. Web.11 Oct. 2012. . "Saint Ambrogio." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Sept. 2012. Web. 11 Oct...
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...from the Manichaean’s. Saint Ambrose was a great influence on him; by listening to him he gradually began emerging from his mistakes. “Although I was not anxious to learn what he said, but merely to hear how he said it – for such bootless concern remained with me, although I had no hope that any way lay open for a man to come to you – yet at the same time with the words, which I loved, there also entered into my mind the things themselves, to which I was indifferent” After all the struggles trying to find God and the truth, St. Augustine was baptized in the Christian faith; unfortunately, his mother was not alive to witness what she had wished for all her life. He had left behind his troubled life to follow God. He became the bishop of Hippo and dedicated his life to the defending the Catholic faith and its teachings. ...
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...before her built their philosophies on, the idea of “justice” and how one should go about living a “good” life. For Augustine in particular living a completely just life goes hand in hand with having complete order in your life. Nussbaum argues that the “good life” in a way makes people oblivious and vulnerable to what the world truly has in store and could negate their “human flourishing”. Augustine’s’ philosophy takes account of Nussbaum’s ideas the most because he basically objects to any notions of the good life, Augustine recognized that no object can be good or bad, but our will as humans is what takes a good thing and then makes them bad. He believes that the reason evil even exists is because humans are not perfect. Augustine of Hippo also known as St. Augustine was an early philosopher who’s philosophy paved the way for what is now Western Christianity, one if his most important pieces of work, “City of God” is still read widely today. He influenced Western Christianity greatly because he believed that all Christians should be pacifists but at the same time he also asserted that one should always defend themselves and others especially if authorized by a legitimate authority aka God. Augustine is a strong believer in Natural Theology which is the idea that nature is created by God and all things in nature are good because God only creates good things, but that is when you get the question of where does evil come from? His answer to that question is that evil comes from...
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...Running Head: Book Review: The Impact of St. Augustine's Life LIBERTY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY THE IMPACT OF ST. AUGUSTINE’S LIFE A Paper Submitted To Dr. John Landers Liberty Theological Seminary In Partial Fulfillment Of The Requirements For The Course CHHI 520 CHHI-520 HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH I By Dutch Nelson Liberty ID #: L24440559 Lynchburg, Virginia October 7, 2012 Table of Contents Cover Page 1 Table of Contents 2 Introduction 3 The Life of Augustine 3 Madaurus 366-370 3 Thagaste 370-371 4 Carthage 371-383 4 Italy 383-387 4 Thagaste 387-390 5 Hippo 390-430 5 Augustine as a Writer 5 Augustine as a Scholar 6 Augustine as a Pagan 7 Augustine and Marriage 8 Augustine’s Journey to Christiainity 9 Augustine as a Christian 10 Augustine as Saint 11 Conclusion 12 Bibliography 14 Introduction Spiritual leaders exemplify themselves by the way they live and the way they impact the lives of others. This normally determines how their congregation and those who hear their word and see their deeds view them. Augustine’s life has not been totally perfect. He like other humans has erred in some way. However, he has had a positive impact on a number of theologians and philosophers (Smith 2008, 1). This paper looks at his life over his 76 years on earth and seeks to provide evidence that Augustine’s life can be used as an example in the preparation of spiritual leaders. The Life of Augustine Augustine’s life...
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...Augustine Dealing with Death “A Friend’s Death” in the book “Confessions,” written in Hippo in 397, pretty clearly identifies what this portion of the text encompasses. The excerpt begins with Augustine’s recurrence of confusion with God; watching his friend suffer so intensely makes him wonder why God doesn’t divinely intervene to end his misery. This leads to a reflection on his recent dark days and more ambiguity with God’s presence. While unconscious, Augustine’s friend receives a baptism that Augustine is sure he would not have preferred if mentally present. With this in mind, Augustine pokes fun of it when his friend comes to, which is seen as repulsively unforgiveable, and threatens to end their friendship. Not long afterwards, the friend passes, which leaves no time for reconciliation for the two. This leads Augustine descending into a deep depression where constantly reminders of his loss lie and ultimately his only relief is found through weeping. Although this time period was extremely devastating to Augustine in the moment, do you think the reborn St. Augustine looks back on this memory as more of a weight off of his shoulders than a devastating loss while writing the selection? In the beginning sentences of the selection, Augustine goes into detail about the diminishing condition of his ailing friend. He goes into depth when describing his friend’s pain, stating that he was “convulsed with fever, lying insensible in a lethal sweat and given up for lost”...
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...Religion remains the one of the deepest and holiest concerns of mankind. The birth of Christianity is momentous among all the religions, where the history of mankind before his birth is considered as the preparation for his coming and the history after his death as the diffusion of his spirit and the progress of mankind. Christian history begins with Jesus of Nazareth, a Jew who was born in a small corner of the Roman Empire. Not much is known about his early life but when he was around 30 years old he was baptized by John the Baptist and had visions of being blessed by the Almighty. A group of 12 disciples followed him and spread his teachings of condemning religious hypocrisies and interpreted the Mosaic law in different innovative ways. They believed in the ‘Kingdom of God’, finding their Messiah in Jesus. Within a few years, oppositions built up against Jesus and he was executed by crucifixion in the hands of Romans. Most of Jesus' followers scattered everywhere, dismayed at such an unexpected outcome. Three days later, women who went to anoint his body reported that the tomb was empty and an angel told them Jesus rose from the dead. The disciples, who were initially skeptical, later came to believe the women. They reported that Jesus appeared to them on several occasions and then ascended into heaven before their eyes. Soon the number of followers, in the name of ‘Christians’, grew rapidly. The most instrumental man behind the creation of the church was Paul, a Jew by birth...
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...the Homeric song. The song borrows extensively from Odyssey and Iliad (Kline Para. 7). However, the politics are anti-Greek while there is also a lack of Homer’s irony and a penetrating observation of violence from humans. May be, Virgil could have successfully achieved all of Homer’s effects if he had tried since he is considered to be a strong imitator. However, the Roman imperialist politics determined his agenda. One of Augustine’s confessions consists of the eternal Rose’s yellow that stretches and slopes while diffusing fragrance of praise into the endless spring’s sun. Dante has a confession about paradiso’s end, whereby he has a vision of Empyrean, heaven’s highest level, where faith’s famed patricians such as St. Augustine of Hippo, St. Benedict and St, Francis sit. It is so fitting that St. Augustine appears in Dante’s final vision because Augustine’s confessions provide a significant insight to Dante’s depiction of...
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...wars of invasion. In ethicist literature as in moral theology and policy making, the Just War Theory is associated with the belief that conflicts can be justified under certain philosophical, political and religious criteria. This paradigm dates back to the times of Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman statesman, philosopher, lawyer, theorist and constitutionalist. The connection of the theory to medieval Christian theory and particularly, contemporary Catholicism is in the works of Thomas Aquinas and Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (Gutman & Rieff, 2000). The former, also called Thomas of Aquin was an Italian Dominican priest, a theologian and a philosopher. The latter, also called St. Augustine, Blessed Augustine or Augustine of Hippo, was a onetime Bishop of Hippo Regius, a philosopher and theologian. This paper describes the tenets of the just war theory derived from the works of these philosophers and the utility of the theory within contemporary warfare. Specific focus is on the justification of the US invasion of Iraq and the consequences thereof. In the works of these three philosophers, the Just War Theory took a Christian connotation of the Roman Empire’s view of warfare. The Christian understanding of provocation to war and the ethics of warfare shifted to strong beliefs in a jurisdiction’s duty or right to fight for a course that is considered just. This paradigm shift abandoned the oft strict pacifism that characterized relations in pre-medieval history of human civilization...
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