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Augustine is recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Lutheran churches, and the Anglican Communion. He is also a preeminent Catholic Doctor of the Church and the patron of the Augustinians. His memorial is celebrated on 28 August, the day of his death.
- Confessions
Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo. Confessions (Latin:...
- Perpetua
Perpetua (died c. 423) was a late Roman abbess, the daughter...
- Bishop of Hippo Regius
Hippo Regius (also known as Hippo or Hippone) is the ancient...
- Saint Augustine (Disambiguation)
Saint Augustine or Augustine of Hippo (354–430) was a...
- Church Fathers of The Latin Church
The Church Fathers, Early Church Fathers, Christian Fathers,...
- Patristic Period
Volumes from Philip Schaff's The Nicene and Post-Nicene...
- List of Eastern Orthodox saints
List of Eastern Orthodox saints. This is a partial list of...
- Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox...
- Confessions
- Saint Photios
- Hesychasm and Augustine
- Saint Gennadios Scholarios
- Modern Period
- Conclusion
- Notes
The first major theologian of the Orthodox church to come to grips with the filioque was Saint Photios who also deals with the person of Saint Augustine. He makes the case that a saint who erred on a doctrine that was instituted subsequent to his death is not guilty of heresy and that the holiness of the person was not lessened. In the case of Augu...
Augustine himself had not been personally attacked by the Hesychasts of the fourteenth century but Augustinian theology was condemned in the person of Barlaam, who caused the controversy. This resulted in the ultimate condemnation of western Augustinianism as presented to the East by the Calabrian monk, Barlaam, in the Councils of the fourteenth ce...
Also attending the Council at Ferrara-Florence was a theologian of great stature, Gennadios Scholarios. He knew Latin and Latin theology. He had translated several treatises of Thomas Aquinas into Greek for the benefit of his compatriots. He spent a great deal of time studying and writing on Augustine in the debate on the filioque. Scholarios appro...
The prominent seventeenth-century Greek Orthodox theologian, Dositheos, Patriarch of Jerusalem, contends that the works of Saint Augustine were tampered with and his doctrines distorted. For that reason the Orthodox do not accept them without caution. But all those works that agree with Orthodoxy are very useful. Dositheos himself uses "blessed" Au...
In reviewing the Greek Orthodox literature we see that the Greek Orthodox theologians are very critical of Augustine and his errors. Nowhere, however, did we find evidence in the patristic writings for the claim that his name should be eliminated from the list of the saints. Beginning with Photios, generally, the Greek Orthodox perceive Augustine a...
J.P. Migne, Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Graeca. Vol. 102, Book 2. Paris (1857-1866), c. 352, cited as PG. Photios, Mystagogia, 71. Photios, Mystagogia, 67. PG 102, c.345. Saint Photios. The Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit. Trans. Joseph P. Farrell. (Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1987) p. 91 Farrell, p.91. Photios, Mystagogia, 67; ...
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Blessed Augustine of Hippo: His Place in the Orthodox Church. A Corrective Compilation. An Article from Orthodox Tradition. There are those who argue that Saint Augustine (†430) wrote a number of things inconsistent with the consensus of the Fathers, especially with regard to sin and human guilt before God and the nature of Grace.
Jun 15, 2011 · Blessed Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. Commemorated on June 15. Troparion & Kontakion. Saint Augustine was born in the city of Thagaste in northern Africa. He was raised by his mother, Saint Monica (May 4), and he received his education at Carthage.
A discussion of Augustine's understanding of theophanies is a necessary part of the theological reception of Augustine in Eastern Orthodoxy. The investigation of the historical context and precedents for the treatment of theophanies in the early books of De Trinitate reveals Augustine's own contribution to be both a theological breakthrough and a major contribution to the anti-Homoian polemics ...
