Augustine of Hippo
Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354-430) · Academics · Died at 75
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Something wrong?A fourth-century bishop whose wrestling with sex, sin, and grace became the intellectual spine of Western Christianity - and whose autobiography invented a genre.
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Saint Augustine Taken to School by Saint Monica, by Niccolò di Pietro, 1413-15
Saint Augustine and his mother, Saint Monica (1846) by Ary Scheffer
The Conversion of St. Augustine by Fra Angelico
The vision of St. Augustine by Ascanio Luciano
Baroque Painting of Augustine triumphantly ascending into Heaven on a cloud c.1664
Augustine's arm bones, Saint Augustin Basilica, Annaba, AlgeriaIn their own words 10
, The superfluities of the rich are the necessaries of the poor. They who possess superfluities, possess the goods of others.
An unjust law is no law at all.
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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Born in 354 in Numidia, Augustine drifted through Manichaeism and Neoplatonism before converting to Christianity in 386 under Ambrose. As Bishop of Hippo Regius, he developed a theology of original sin and unmerited grace that would echo through centuries, penned the first Western autobiography in his Confessions, and in The City of God imagined the Church as a spiritual city against the collapse of Rome. He died in 430, leaving works - On the Trinity, On Christian Doctrine, theories of just war - that shaped medieval thought and later fed both Catholic doctrine and Protestant Reformation. Thomas Aquinas cited him more than anyone; Luther and Calvin claimed him; the East still venerates him, with reservations.
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