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like St. Augustine, a man from centuries before, was of the same mind, he clearly would have influenced the people and made them s...
Victorinus by Plato. This seems to have moved Augustine from the point of simply musing about immortality into an assurance about ...
something greater than humans and that is God (Donati, 2002). He offers further proof through mathematical concepts, for instance,...
how evil is nothing tangibly heinous, but instead reflects the "absence of good."ii In other words, man merely makes bad choices ...
either good or evil. There was no "middle of the road" in this extreme religious philosophy. When Augustine was indulging in his...
In seven pages faith as described in Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard and Confessions by St. Augustine are contrasted and compare...
Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...
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...
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...
the human soul, the other for evil and matter, including the body(Gilson 3-66). However, when he became dissatisfied with the mat...
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...
In a paper containing five pages an overview of these rivers along with contrasts and comparisons are offered. There are four bib...
of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...
doubt, people during that time would have recognized. The twelve person circles are led by each St. Thomas, the Franciscan, and St...
course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
In eighteen pages this paper examines how St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo developed the 'just war' concept and theor...
In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...
John is largely a national park. St. Thomas boasts a deepwater harbor. St. Croix has rolling hills. All three are special touri...
of Christianity is "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and yet Christians have been killing each other, as well as non-Christians, for millenni...
In eight pages this paper examines writings of St. Jerome, St. Augustine, and others in a consideration of the marriage concept an...
own regions. For example, in New York it is legal for a woman to remove her shirt on a public, city street but few do so as they r...
In nine pages this paper discusses how man's best life can be best pursued, concepts of good and evil, and divine knowledge accord...
In twenty two pages this paper defines sacrament in this overview of the origins of the Christian Sacraments and considers theolog...
appears to vary according to just who is considering the question and around such particulars as whose life is being considered (T...
in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...
play nor a reflection of a womans behavior. Equally disturbing as the act of rape itself is when these acts result in pregnancy. ...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...
The duties of a king to his subjects and their duties to him were viewed somewhat differently by St. Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle....