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The City of God - Two Cities

of his time period would see the end of the one city, the city of man, and the reign of another, the city of God. One author state...

St. Augustine and His Impact

2001). In many ways St. Augustines life would serve as a bridge between pagan Rome and the Christian middle ages (ODonnell, 2001)...

Saint Augustine of Hippo and Plato's Influence

Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

Lives and Learning by Plato and Augustine

text in which he is painstakingly honest, demonstrates that his spiritual path was not easy. It is clear from the beginning that t...

Travel Story That is Subject Oriented

an integral part of the travelogue. These obstacles are met and either overcome, or the obstacles serve as catalysts to propel th...

Man and the Creation of Fear and God

As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...

Truth in the Works of Saint Augustine of Hippo and Jonathan Swift

on to reflect that the skins of women at home appear beautiful because we cannot see these small defects under normal circumstance...

Earth and Heaven According to Dante Alighieri and Augustine of Hippo

tells the reader that all the Romans desired, and more, would actually be found in the City of God. This is not to say that moneta...

Natural Law and How It Developed

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

Judaism, Christianity, and Life's Meaning

outlook by blaming someone or something else, thus we will remaining in a ?status quo? personality and spirit all our life, never ...

'Just War' Concept

In eighteen pages this paper examines how St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo developed the 'just war' concept and theor...

Evil in the World

In five pages this paper examines how evil exists in the world in a comparative analysis of Saint Augustine of Hippo's Free Will d...

Evil and Philosophy II

In six pages this paper discusses evil in the world in a consideration of philosophical perspectives offered in the Bible, Night b...

Law of Greece

What was established as the first recognized law came from the fact that revenge played a big role in societys unruliness. As it ...

Life and Works of Augustine of Hippo

In five pages this paper discuses the life and Western religious and cultural contributions of Augustine of Hippo which includes C...

Free Will and Saint Augustine

n.d.). God knew that humans would use their free will for evil but He also knew that good would emerge through His Grace (Anderson...

Saint Augustine and the Conversion Experience

the human soul, the other for evil and matter, including the body(Gilson 3-66). However, when he became dissatisfied with the mat...

Literature of the Medieval Period

seems to be known about the education of Mark. The author of this gospel is believed to have been John Mark, the cousin of Barnaba...

TV Viewing's Pros and Cons

and other shows have introduced a world of learning to toddlers and the preschool set. There are educational shows for adults and ...

'Evil' Problem and Confessions of Saint Augustine

In five pages this paper examines how evil is conceptualized by St. Augustine of Hippo in this early theological text. Three sour...

Augustine and Plato

Victorinus by Plato. This seems to have moved Augustine from the point of simply musing about immortality into an assurance about ...

Tutorial on Peter Abelard and Saint Augustine of Hippo

nine Books relate Augustines life up to the death of his mother and then, the story takes an abrupt turn as Augustine puts forth h...

Analyzing A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes

fictional historical account, as the author uses a host of unusual situations and characters to dramatize historical interpretatio...

Life and Works of Saint Augustine

how evil is nothing tangibly heinous, but instead reflects the "absence of good."ii In other words, man merely makes bad choices ...

Predestination and Free Will According to St. Augustine

That system is based on three principals: 1. God is absolute Master, by His grace, of all the determinations of the will; 2. man ...

Concept of a Spiritual Journey

and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...

Contributions of Augustine of Hippo

like St. Augustine, a man from centuries before, was of the same mind, he clearly would have influenced the people and made them s...

Philosophically Considering the Existence of God

"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

Doctrine of the Trinity and Saint Augustine

either good or evil. There was no "middle of the road" in this extreme religious philosophy. When Augustine was indulging in his...

God Exists According to the Arguments of Saint Augustine

something greater than humans and that is God (Donati, 2002). He offers further proof through mathematical concepts, for instance,...