81. General Christian Resources Books - Faithresource.org Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, Bourke, Vernon J. (trans.). (1953). Confessions. Augustine,Saint, Bishop of Hippo, Dods, Marcus (trans.), Merton, Thomas. http://www.faithresource.com/showcase/genchristian/genchristianbook.htm

FaithResource BROUGHT TO YOU BY AFF AND CYS HOME ADVISORY BOARD ... SHOWCASE RELIGION NEWS SPIRITUAL ABUSE FREE NEWSLETTER SPIRITUAL ABUSE SEEKERS' GUIDELINES FAQS ABOUT AFF ABOUT CYS CONTACT US Search General Christian Resources Books Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, Bourke, Vernon J. (trans.). (1953). Confessions. Washington: Catholic University of America Press. Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, Dods, Marcus (trans.), Merton, Thomas (intro) City of God . New York: Modern Library. Barth, Karl, Torrance, Thomas F., Bromiley, Geoffrey W. (Eds.). (2000). Church Dogmatics. Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, Fuller, R.H. (trans.) and Booth, Irmgard (trans.). (1959). The Cost of Discipleship. New York: Macmillan. Chambers, Oswald. (1935). My Utmost for His Highest : Selections for the Year. Chesterton, G.K. (1995). Orthodoxy. San Franciso: Ignatius. Cross, F.L. and Livingston, E.A. (Eds.). (1997). The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church.

82. Saint Augustine Saint Augustine was the Bishop of Hippo, a little town in North Africa and livedfrom 354430. He had a Christian mother named Monica and a pagan father. http://latter-rain.com/eccles/august.htm

Augustine Monica worried greatly over her son and wanted his baptism deferred. Augustine overheard a child in the distance say as if to him "take read" upon which he turned to the 13th chapter of Romans which said, "Put on the Lord, Jesus Christ". In Milan Augustine met Ambrose, who was instrumental in his final conversion to Christianity. He was baptized by Ambrose in 387 with his friend Alypius and his son Adeodatus. Augustine was a great writer and thinker and his writings became the standard. It is not possible to exaggerate his influence in European thought. He wrote his confessions, describing fully his life and temptations for a people curious to know the lives of others, but careless to know their own. With the utmost candor Augustine divulges the sins and folly of his youth and the weaknesses that still beset him. Augustine's thinking proved seminal because he raised more questions than answers, it was up to later theologians to come up with the answers. He condemned the practice of deferring baptism. Plato taught him God, but Jesus showed him the way. Augustine felt that preaching was his most important duty and he continued until the end. "I do not wish to be saved without you. Why am I in the world? Not only to live in Jesus Christ; but to live in Him with you. This is my passion, my honor, by glory, my joy, and my riches." Saint Augustine gathered up the strands from Christian traditions and classical antiquity alike and wove them into a new fabric destined to influence profoundly the thought of the church. By describing his own tortuous course he analyzed all mankind. He was himself an illustration of man's corruption, redemption, and continuing imperfection. Augustine developed also Paul's teaching on predestination, but like the errors of John Calvin, with sharper rigidity. Ideally he believed there should be no sexual relations except for procreation and felt that the excitation of passion dissipates rational control. No other Christian after Paul was to have such an extent in the church. Augustine was a Bishop for 40 years, a true intellectual, trained in the classical arts, a philosopher, orator, writer, dramatist, man of letters, thinker of great power, daring pioneer in speculation, theological genius with the communicative sympathy of an artist.

83. The Classic Text: St. Augustine Augustine, Bishop of Hippo remains one of the most influential authors of churchdoctrine, and the continued transmission and relevance of his texts for almost http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg059.htm

S t. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo remains one of the most influential authors of church doctrine, and the continued transmission and relevance of his texts for almost 1600 years serve as witness to his broad influence. While the author of many works, he is most well known for his biographical Confessions and his master work The City of God A ugustine recounted the story of his restless youth in The Confessions . The product of a pagan father and Christian mother, Augustine was not baptized in infancy. As a 19-year old student in Carthage, he read a treatise of Cicero that directed him to philosophy. At age 28, he traveled to Rome and then on to Milan where he met with Bishop Ambrose. Under the tutelage of Ambrose, Augustine converted to Christianity in 386 and was baptized by Ambrose in 387. A ugustine then returned to Africa and was ordained as a priest in 391. He ascended to the bishopric of Hippo in 396. There he served as pastor, teacher, preacher and civil judge. H e maintained the importance of a single, unified church and developed a theory of sin, grace and predestination that not only became basic to the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, but later was also used as the justification for the tenets of Calvin, Luther and the Jansenists. C hurch historian John C. Cavadini writes the following about Augustine's Confessions:

84. Augustine The African Donatism is the movement Augustine opposed, named after a Bishop at Carthage someeighty years before Augustine's time to Hippo.9 In those days the church http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/twayne/aug1.html

Augustine Augustine the African by James J. O'Donnell Augustine was born in Tagaste (modern Souk Ahras, Algeria) in 354 and died almost seventy-six years later in Hippo Regius (modern Annaba) on the Mediterranean coast sixty miles away. In the years between he lived out a career that seems to moderns to bridge the gap between ancient pagan Rome and the Christian middle ages. But to Augustine, as to his contemporaries, that gap separated real people and places they knew, not whole imaginary ages of past and future. He lived as we do, in the present, full of uncertainty. Augustine's African homeland had been part of Rome's empire since the destruction of Carthage five hundred years before his birth. Carthage had been rebuilt by Rome as the metropolis of Roman Africa, wealthy once again but posing no threat. The language of business and culture throughout Roman Africa was Latin. Careers for the ambitious, as we shall see, led out of provincial Africa into the wider Mediterranean world; on the other hand, wealthy Italian senators maintained vast estates in Africa which they rarely saw. The dominant religion of Africa became Christianitya religion that violently opposed the traditions of old Rome but that could not have spread as it did without the prosperity and unity that Rome had brought to the ancient world. Roman Africa was a military backwater. The legions that were kept there to maintain order and guard against raids by desert nomads were themselves the gravest threat to peace; but their occasional rebellions were for the most part short-lived and inconsequential. The only emperors who ever spent much time in Africa were the ones who had been born there; by Augustine's time, decades had passed without an emperor even thinking of going to Africa.

85. Saint Augustine Milan was a city of a great Bishop of the Catholic Church, Saint Ambrose. Augustine,with Monica at his side, went to hear Ambrose preach, at first only to http://www.osa-west.org/saintaugustine.html

Saint Augustine o the world at large, Saint Augustine is known above all as the great thinker who peacefully influenced philosophy and theology, the thrust of the spirituality of the Latin Church, and the development of apostolic endeavors. The source from which he drew the great strength for his achievements should not be overlooked: his monastic ideal of the search for God and contemplation. Augustine was born in Tagaste, about fifty miles from Hippo in North Africa, in 354. His father. Patricius, was a minor Roman official who became Christian only at the end of his life. His mother, Monica, was deeply committed to the Catholic faith. Neither parent was a saint in the beginning; Monica became one in trying to bring her son to the Lord. Like many middle-class parents, they were extremely interested in their son's education. If his parents appear rather ordinary and perhaps disturbingly familiar, Augustine brings them quite remarkably to life in his writings. He praises his father for going beyond his means to supply what was necessary for his son's studies. Of Monica, Augustine tells us that she wept more for his spiritual death than most mothers weep for the bodily death of their children. "For she saw that I was dead by that faith and spirit which she had from you, and you heard her, O Lord." He also relates how a local bishop once turned away Monica's plea that he have a talk with her son with this comment;" Go your way and God will bless you, for it is not possible that the son of these tears should perish." She accepted the answer, says Augustine, as though it were a voice from heaven.

86. St. Augustine's Parish - Montpelier, VT was a devout Catholic who became a Saint in her own Despite his personal shortcomings,Augustine became a Ambrose a Bishop and brilliant Catholic theologian. http://www.saintaugustinechurch.com/htm/saint.shtml

About Us Stained Glass Our Patron Saint The man for whom St. Augustine's Parish is named was a lively and, in the early part of his life, a wayward individual. Augustine of Hippo, the parish's patron was born in North Africa in the year 354. His father, Patricius, was a minor Roman official who converted Christianity at the end of his life. His mother, Monica, for whom St. Monica's in Barre was named, was a devout Catholic who became a saint in her own right. Augustine spent his youth carousing, diving deeply and often into the party life and all it entailed. His dissolute life-style was a source of great distress to his mother. Although Monica wept and worried, she never wavered in her conviction that her son would ultimately be converted to the Catholic faith. Despite his personal shortcomings, Augustine became a professional success. He earned a living as a professor of rhetoric - which in his time entailed philosophy and public speaking. His studies brought him to Rome and, eventually to Milan, where he was exposed to the preaching of St. Ambrose - a bishop and brilliant Catholic theologian. Augustine, who came to Milan a troubled and disillusioned young man who, according to his later writings, was "gnawed within" by a growing unhappiness, was converted to Catholicism after reading this passage from the scripture: "Not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual excess and lust, not in quarreling and jealousy. Rather; put the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provisions for the desires of the flesh." (Romans 13:13-14)

87. Saint Augustine - An Introduction From SeekersWay.org Saint Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus) (354430), a North African Bishop of HippoRegius in what is now Algeria, is one of the most influential theologians in http://www.seekersway.org/seekers_guide/saint_augustine_1_m.htm

Saint Augustine and other spiritual topics can be found in the Seekers Guide Saint Augustine - An Introduction Saint Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus) (354-430), a North African bishop of Hippo Regius in what is now Algeria, is one of the most influential theologians in Christian history. Augustine's Writings established a precedent in acknowledging mystical experience as an important aspect of spiritual practice. His Writings show a shift in emphasis from Faith (in God's Promise), to Will (God's intention for a person), to perfect Love (in loving God, God's love is reciprocated and salvation is assured). The emphasis changes from theological to experiential, and from faith to conscious awareness. Recommended reading: The Confessions of Saint Augustine , by Saint Augustine of Hippo Hesychasm Jakob Boehme Meister Eckhart Saint Augustine Saint Francis of Assisi Saint John of the Cross Saint Teresa of Avila The Desert Fathers ... Seekers Way SM seekersway.org/seekers_guide/saint_augustine_1_m

88. St. Augustine Of Hippo Gradually, though, Ausustine began to hear the content of the Bishop's sermons,not just the style. Augustine. Works Cited. Augustine of Hippo (1930) On http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/gallery/rhetoric/figures/augustine.html

t. Augustine was a Third Century rhetorician who became a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Augustine was also a prolific writer on many subjects such as the liberal arts and Greek Pagan philosophy. His writings greatly influenced the development of the church as well as western culture and education. Education and Background Augustine was born to a pagan father and Christian mother in the city of Tagaste, in the Roman colony of Numidia (now known as Algeria). His formal education began at the public school in nearby Madaura, where Augustine was introduced to the polite language of Latin. Up until this point, he had for the most part spoken the Punic dialect of Numidia, and he became enthralled with the world of literature opened up to him through Latin. Augustine's studies of pagan Latin literature (particularly Cicero and Virgil) would greatly influence his style in later writings. After recieving his degree in Rhetoric from the university at Carthage, Augustine went to work as a teacher of rhetoric. It was at this time that Augustine read Cicero's "Hortensius", in which Cicereo places wisdom and th pursuit of truth above the value of Rhetoric. Augustine soon vecame torn between his ambition for a great career as rhetorician, and the pursuit of spiritual truth and wisdom(Fulop-Miller, 1945). His search for answers led him to the philosophy of Manichaeism (Brown, 1967). Augustine returned to his hometown of Tagaste and established himself there as a professor of rhetoric. He used his post there to advance the teachings of the Manichaes. When Augustine's closest friend died, he became disenchanted with this dualist philosophy because it could not produce answers to assuage his grief. This event left Augustine in a state of confusion with a complete lack of confidence. The brilliant rhetorician of Tagaste gave up his teaching to return to Carthage, where he again took up teaching while searching for a philosophy to solve the riddle of his Self (Fulop-Miller, 1945).

89. UBC Library - MARION The complete works of Aristotle The works of Saint Augustine User's guide Britishmoralists (selections), Anne Conway, John Locke, Bishop George Berkeley http://dra.library.ubc.ca/MARION/BBT-6393

UBC Library Catalogue Title: Past masters [electronic resource] : humanities databases, full text scholarly editions. Author: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. Aristotle. Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832. ... InteLex Corporation. Call number: Published: Charlottesville, VA : InteLex Corp., [2001]. Edition: Windows version. Subject: Philosophy Collected works Material: 2 computer optical discs ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 user's guide. Notes: Title from disc label. Disc 1. The collected works of Thomas Aquinas The complete works of Aristotle The works of Saint Augustine User's guide Disc 2. The correspondence of Jeremy Bentham The works of Jeremy Bentham The works of George Berkeley British philosophy, 1600-1900 : Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, British moralists (selections), Anne Conway, John Locke, Bishop George Berkeley, David Hume, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, David Ricardo, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick G.F.W. Hegel, Werke (v. 1) The complete works and correspondence of David Hume Philosophical works and selected correspondence of John Locke The collected works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Nietzsches Werke, historische kritische Ausgabe Political philosophy, Machiavelli to Mill The continental rationalists The collected works of Ludwig Wittgenstein User's guide. A searchable collection of works by various philosophers. Employs Folio Views, a text management program that offers view processing, text searching and retrieval, and hypertext linking.

90. The Confessions Of Augustine: Electronic Edition Take up and read, from a series of frescos on the life of Augustine, Bishop ofHippo (now Annaba, Algeria) done by Benozzo Gozzoli in San Gimignano (1465) http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/conf/

The Confessions of Augustine: An Electronic Edition by James J. O'Donnell Books and Commentaries Frames Version No-Frames Version James J. O'Donnell SGML encoding and HTML conversion by Anne Mahoney for the Stoa Consortium, 24 November 1999. Search: Match: All Any Boolean "Take up and read," from a series of frescos on the life of Augustine , bishop of Hippo (now Annaba, Algeria) done by Benozzo Gozzoli in San Gimignano T his document is an on-line reprint of Augustine: Confessions , a text and commentary by James J. O'Donnell (Oxford: 1992; ISBN 0-19-814 378-8). The text and commentary were encoded in SGML by the Stoa Consortium in co-operation with the Perseus Project ; the HTML files were generated from the archival SGML version. E ach book of the text has a link to introductory commentary on that book, and each section of the text has a link to detailed comments on the section. Links within the commentary connect not only to the section of text directly being annotated, but also to other parts of the text and commentary. Footnotes in the commentary appear at the end of each book; the footnote numbers are links from the commentary text to the footnote and from the footnote text back to the com mentary. Where possible, links have been provided to the texts of classical works and Biblical passages cited in the commentary. Links at the end of each book of the text and commentary allow navigation to the next book or the previous one of text, comm entary, or both together. B y default, the text displays in the upper frame and the commentary in the lower. Use the "frame free" version to display the text and commentary in separate browser windows.

91. 33 DOCTORS OF THE CHURCH Early Summer Hiatus Issue (junedoc.htm) Even though a Bishop, he still lived in community Other than the Angelic Doctor SaintThomas Aquinas Augustine is considered the greatest single intellect ever http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/2002Jun/junedoc.htm

EARLY SUMMER HIATUS ISSUE June 10-30, 2002 volume 13, no. 103 E-mail Print Saint Augustine "The Doctor of Grace" The tenth Doctor in this chronological series on the Doctors of the Church was the brilliant author of the City of God , the wise and inspirational Saint Augustine . His greatness for Holy Mother Church can be attributed to the combined efforts of two saints; two who had the greatest effects on the life of Augustine of Hippo. For indeed his conversion and eventual triumphs were due to his mother Saint Monica working behind the scenes, so to speak, in praying relentlessly for bringing him back to the Faith and Saint Ambrose , the mighty Doctor of the Church who was on the front line with the fiesty Augustine, unafraid to take on the challenges of this great skeptic. Augustine was born in Tagaste in what is today Algeria on November 13, 354. By the time he was 30 he was preaching rhetoric, interspersed with Manichean heresy, at the university of Milan. It was there he met St. Ambrose and sat in on his lectures where he was enthralled with Ambrose's explanation of Sacred Scripture. Two years later, in 356 Augustine heard a voice while he was embroiled in abandoned tears of helplessness searching for answers. The child-like voice chanted, "Take and read." Without thinking Augustine opened the Bible to the words of

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