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Sep 25, 2019 · First published Wed Sep 25, 2019; substantive revision Fri Apr 26, 2024. Augustine of Hippo was perhaps the greatest Christian philosopher of Antiquity and certainly the one who exerted the deepest and most lasting influence. He is a saint of the Catholic Church, and his authority in theological matters was universally accepted in the Latin ...
Mar 24, 2000 · Aurelius Augustinus [more commonly “St. Augustine of Hippo,” often simply “Augustine”] (354–430 C.E.): rhetor, Christian Neoplatonist, North African Bishop, Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church. One of the decisive developments in the western philosophical tradition was the eventually widespread merging of the Greek philosophical ...
Saint Augustine, (born Nov. 13, 354, Tagaste, Numidia—died Aug. 28, 430, Hippo Regius; feast day August 28), Christian theologian and one of the Latin Fathers of the Church. Born in Roman North Africa, he adopted Manichaeism , taught rhetoric in Carthage, and fathered a son.
Augustine of Hippo. Architect of the Middle Ages. "Mankind is divided into two sorts: such as live according to man, and such as live according to God. These we call the two cities…. The ...
Feb 28, 2019 · Updated on February 28, 2019. St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo in north Africa (354 to 430 A.D.), was one of the great minds of the early Christian church, a theologian whose ideas forever influenced both Roman Catholics and Protestants . But Augustine did not come to Christianity by a straightforward path.
Jun 8, 2018 · Augustine, St. (354–430) AUGUSTINE, ST. St. Augustine, also known as Aurelius Augustinus, was one of the key figures in the transition from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages. He was born at Thagaste, in north Africa, and died as the invading Vandals were closing in on his episcopal city, Hippo.
St. Augustine (354-430 C.E.), originally named Aurelius Augustinus, was the Catholic bishop of Hippo in northern Africa. He was a skilled Roman-trained rhetorician, a prolific writer (who produced more than 110 works over a 30-year period), and by wide acclamation, the first Christian philosopher.
