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In seven pages this research paper considers the views of Butler, Johnson, Abelard, Saint Augustine, and Plutarch on vice. Six so...
Women in a repressive, male chauvinistic society -- such as in the time of Augustinian law -- must do what they have to in order...
In five pages this paper considers time and truth as conceptualized by St. Augustine in Confessions first 8 books. Four sources a...
In five pages this text by Jean Bethke Elshtain is analyzed in its portrayal of Augustine and how it represents the limitations of...
In face of the overwhelming number of verses in the Holy Bible that tell Christians they are not supposed to use force, how do we ...
of the debt and obligations that put opposing pressures on it, sending it reeling toward its inevitable conclusion--calamity. ...
engine of aesthetic development throughout Western Europe for much of history. This can be seen in the patronage of artists by Chr...
is pleasure derived from worshiping the Triune God. In Book II, Augustine discusses further the subject of signs. He defines wha...
the bulk of his presentation. However, he devotes the second chapter to setting the "stage of Augustines mentoring of spiritual le...
and symbols, that is, how abstract ideas are communicated through the mediums of language, writing and also through visual communi...
those who would do evil. Augustine couched his ideas on government within his concept of two cities, an earthly city and a city o...
text. Augustine is explaining that he was more emotionally in tune with Greek classic literature than he was with his own spirit...
Shedd (1886) points out that Augustine is especially guilty of this in the last eight chapters/Books. This may be because the firs...
text in which he is painstakingly honest, demonstrates that his spiritual path was not easy. It is clear from the beginning that t...
Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...
still prevalent in Christian theology, that the all of scripture if divinely inspired and therefore completely correct. On the o...
Augustine, himself, mentions his own difficulties in struggling to overcome his own lustful desires in Book III of Confessions. Du...
crucial doctrines as creation, incarnation and resurrection (61). Born around 130 A.D., Irenaeus of Lyons was primarily a pastor...
"middle of the road" in this extreme religious philosophy. When Augustine was indulging in his sinful or evil behavior, he mainta...
fictional historical account, as the author uses a host of unusual situations and characters to dramatize historical interpretatio...
In five pages this paper examines how evil is conceptualized by St. Augustine of Hippo in this early theological text. Three sour...
understand divinity. Both philosophers seem to have been influenced by the teachings of Plato. In Senecas On the Shortness of Li...
Victorinus by Plato. This seems to have moved Augustine from the point of simply musing about immortality into an assurance about ...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...
like St. Augustine, a man from centuries before, was of the same mind, he clearly would have influenced the people and made them s...
course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...
but Augustine lacked "the sincere desire of being heard," so that when he got to Carthage the city seduced him (Portalie, 2004). ...
the divine commands and the application of Mosaic tradition require a comparative view of these authors, their underlying purpose,...
born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...