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Augustine I loved the happy life but I feared to find it in Your house and so I ran from it hitherto as I sought after it. I feeling that I would be miserable if I were kept from a womans arms. I did not believe that a regain for this disease lay in Your mercy; I had no experience of such a cure. I believed that continence was deep down a mans own powers, though I was unsuspecting of such a power within me. I was a fool and did not know - as it is written [in Scripture] - that no man can be continent unless You grant it to him. And this You sure enough would have given to me if, with inward groanings, I had knocked at your ears and with a firm faith had cast my many cares upon You. (from The Confessions, Book 6, Chapter 11, circa 397-400 A.D.) Augustine was born(p) in A.D. 354 in the town of Thagaste in Algeria. His father was a pagan and his mother was a devout Christian. Augustine was educated as a rhetorician in the former North African cities of Tagaste, Madaura, and Carthage. Augustine died in A.D. 430 identifying himself as the supreme doctor of grace. Augustine is, arguably, the greatest theologian-philosopher of every last(predicate) time. Some elements of Platonism can be seen in Augustines teaching.

His mentation of the earth is Platonic, there is the outer and the inner world, the lower and the higher, the sensitive and the intelligible, and the carnal and the spiritual. To become wise requires a movement of the estimate inwards and upwards to God, an opening of the mind to truth which provided the cordial vision that has been purified by faith. His theme of the divine in the world and in man is more biblical than Platonic, which allowed him to regard the worldly world with a reverence that would be impossible for a Platonist. His doctrine of evil as no-thing, a privation, is different from some(prenominal) Platonic thought and Manichaeism. A philosophical question faces Christians, and in fact all theists, that challenges the belief in God. To theists, God is an omnipotent, perfect... If you necessity to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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