After a dramatic conversion to Christianity he became Bishop of Hippo in North Africa (354-430)

Usage examples of augustine.

There are in the modern world an admirable class of persons who really make protest on behalf of that antiqua pulchritudo of which Augustine spoke, who do long for the old feasts and formalities of the childhood of the world.

Augustine was telling them, from a fish point of view, of the deadly danger that lay concealed beneath the appetising wriggles of the agonised worm.

A quick review of conversations I had had about it with Augustine recalled to mind that this site was devoted to biotechnical work and had been scaled down in recent years.

When Augustine went to convert the British, the Comacines followed to provide shrines, and Bede, as early as 674, in mentioning that builders were sent for from Gaul to build the church at Wearmouth, uses phrases and words found in the Edict of King Rotharis.

Augustine had spent more than thirty years battling the Donatists, he was dismayed to confront Christians he called the Pelagians who, despite many differences, as we shall see in Chapter 6, shared with the Donatists both a sectarian view of the church and an insistence on free will.

Saint Augustine introduces the Erythrean Sibyl, who, he says, faithfully foretold the Life of the Saviour.

But, by means of moving among these privileged persons with great coolness and seeming indifference, he soon succeeded in placing himself near the Genoese and the Augustine.

Born in 1058 in Tus, Khurasan, Persia, he was in some respects the St Augustine of Islam.

Augustine followed a natural mental evolution when he was a Platonist before he was a Manichean, and a Manichean before he was a Christian.

The rebels in Georgia threaten us, the Tories at Pensacola warn us, the Seminoles are gathering, the Minorcans are arming, the blacks in the Carolinas watch us, and the British regiments at Augustine are all itching to ravage and plunder and drive us into the sea if we declare not for the King who pays them.

To lose his Augustine, and his Calvin, and his Musculus, and his Zanchius, and his Amesius, and his Suarez, and his Estius was a sore stroke to such a man.

Augustine, I am tempted to say, is actually the very best one can possibly do with the Plotinian system if it must be strained into a mythic worldview.

Church fathers like Augustine and Lactantius in the postclassical period had talked about Hermes Trismegistus as though he were a real person, and so did Roger Bacon and Aquinas in the Middle Ages.

Augustine who introduced the inwardness of radical reflexivity and bequeathed it to the West.

Augustine speaks according to the common law, by reason of which no one is regenerated by the sacraments, save those who are previously born.