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	Augustine of Hippo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aurelius Augustinus, Augustine of Hippo ("The knowledgeable one") (November 13, 354–August 28, 430) is a saint and the pre-eminent Doctor of the Church according to Roman Catholicism, and is considered by Evangelical Protestants to be (together with the Apostle Paul) the theological fountainhead of the Reformation teaching on salvation and grace.
		Saint Augustine was born in 354 in Tagaste, a provincial Roman city in North Africa.
		Augustine deemed this scattering important because he believed that it was a fulfillment of certain prophecies, thus proving that Jesus was the Messiah.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo (1449 words)

	Augustine [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Augustine tries to reconcile his beliefs about freewill, especially the belief that humans are morally responsible for their actions, with his belief that one’s life is predestined.
		Augustine is the first ecclesiastical author the whole course of whose development can be clearly traced, as well as the first in whose case we are able to determine the exact period covered by his career, to the very day.
		Augustine's pride was touched; that the unlearned should take the kingdom of heaven by violence, while he with all his learning was still held captive by the flesh, seemed unworthy of him.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/a/augustin.htm (4484 words)

	Augustine, Saint. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Augustine, troubled in spirit, was greatly drawn by the eloquent fervor of St. Ambrose, bishop of Milan.
		Augustine’s influence on Christianity is thought by many to be second only to that of St. Paul, and theologians, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, look upon him as one of the founders of Western theology.
		Augustine regarded all history as God’s providential preparation of two mystical cities, one of God and one of the devil, to one or the other of which all humankind will finally belong.
	www.bartleby.com /65/au/AugustnSt.html (661 words)

	Saint Augustine
		The saint had baptized the king, and was himself ordained bishop before October, 597, within the space of one year; for the letter of St. Gregory to encourage the missionaries in France to proceed, was dated on the 10th of August, 596.
		Whereupon St. Augustine proposed, by a divine impulse, that a sick or impotent person should be brought in, and that their tradition should be followed, as agreeable to God, by whose prayer he should be cured.
		Augustine, while yet living, ordained Laurence his successor in the see of Canterbury, not to leave at his death an infant church destitute of a pastor." He died on the 26th of May; and as William Thorn says, from a very ancient book of his life, in the same year with St. Gregory, viz.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/AUGCANT.HTM (2606 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Augustine of Hippo
		Augustine himself tells us that he was enticed by the promises of a free philosophy unbridled by faith; by the boasts of the Manichæans, who claimed to have discovered contradictions in Holy Writ; and, above all, by the hope of finding in their doctrine a scientific explanation of nature and its most mysterious phenomena.
		Augustine undoubtedly remained at Milan until towards autumn, continuing his works: "On the Immortality of the Soul" and "On Music." In the autumn of 387, he was about to embark at Ostia, when Monica was summoned from this life.
		The history of Augustine's struggles with the Donatists is also that of his change of opinion on the employment of rigorous measures against the heretics; and the Church in Africa, of whose councils he had been the very soul, followed him in the change.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02084a.htm (4778 words)

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		In his writings, Augustine accuses himself of often studying by constraint, disobeying his parents and masters, not writing, reading, or minding his lessons so much as was required of him; and this he did not for lack of wit or memory, but out of love of play.
		Saint Augustine's spiritual, moral and intellectual struggle went on; he was convinced of the truth of Christianity, but his will was weaker than the worldly temptations, and delayed his return to Christ for many months.
		Saint Augustine calmly resigned his spirit into the hands of God on August 28, 430, after having lived 76 years and spent almost 40 of them in the labors of the ministry.
	www.coptic.net /synexarion/Augustine.txt (1599 words)

	Saint Augustine
		In 391, Augustine was reluctantly ordained as a priest by the congregation of Hippo Regius (a not uncommon practice in Northern Africa), in 395 he was made Bishop, and he died August 430 in Hippo, thirty-five years later, as the Vandals were besieging the gates of the city.
		Augustine feels obliged to confirm, contra the Pelagians, the condemnation of the unbaptized infant, but on a creationist reading of the soul's origin, this is hard to reconcile with divine justice, especially given the notion that the unborn have done neither good nor evil.
		Augustine is acutely aware that scripture has an historical dimension, and he is sensitive as well to the tensions between the scriptural tradition and the Neoplatonic framework upon which he is relying, a tension that comes to eclipse much of the intellectualistic optimism we find in his earliest completed post-conversion works, e.g.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/augustine (13099 words)

	SAINT AUGUSTINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Augustine was ordained a priest by the Bishop of Hippo in 391 A.D. a.
		Augustine continued the Christian emphasis upon the future life of man, stressing that this life is merely a preparation for the life to come.
		Augustine was in favor of censoring strictly the literary content of the child's reading, lest the child be turned away from virtue.
	www.cals.ncsu.edu /agexed/aee501/augustine.html (532 words)

	Saint Augustine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Augustine National Cemetery is located in St. Johns County, in the city of St. Augustine, adjacent to what is now the headquarters of the Florida National Guard.
		Although the St. Augustine burial ground was not designated a national cemetery until 1881, this hallowed site played a vital role in the colorful history of the oldest city in the nation.
		Augustine was originally established in the 17th century as a Spanish colonial possession.
	www.cem.va.gov /nchp/staugustine.htm (1275 words)

	Saint Augustine's Monastery, The Bahamas. Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Saint Augustine's Monastery is a Benedictine community of monks who live, work and pray together.
		Saint Augustine's Monastery was founded by monks of Saint John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota.
		At Saint Augustine's all are invited to join the monks at four periods of public prayer in the chapel; namely, morning prayer, noon prayer, Mass and evening prayer.
	www.sja.osb.org /saugustine (257 words)

	Saint Augustine (354-430) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Augustine, Saint (354-430), greatest of the Latin Fathers and one of the most eminent Western Doctors of the Church.
		Augustine was educated as a rhetorician in the former North African cities of Tagaste, Madaura, and Carthage.
		The place of prominence held by Augustine among the Fathers and Doctors of the Church is comparable to that of St. Paul among the apostles.
	www.connect.net /ron/augustine.html (870 words)

	St. Augustine High School
		Augustine High School is a Catholic, college preparatory secondary school for young men from ninth through twelfth grades.
		Saints is administered and staffed by the Augustinians and dedicated lay persons.
		Saints, centrally located in the North Park area of San Diego, was founded in 1922.
	www.sahs.org (191 words)

	The Classic Text: St. Augustine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Augustine, Bishop of Hippo remains one of the most influential authors of church doctrine, and the continued transmission and relevance of his texts for almost 1600 years serve as witness to his broad influence.
		Under the tutelage of Ambrose, Augustine converted to Christianity in 386 and was baptized by Ambrose in 387.
		Yet in their moving evocation of the absolute freedom and benevolence of God's grace, working through but ultimately independent from every cultural form and historical person, they present that grace to each generation as a kind of question mark, challenging all particular cultural forms and projects to resist the idolatry of self-deification.
	www.uwm.edu /Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg059.htm (321 words)

	Augustine: Confessions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Appearing midway in Saint Augustine's prodigious body of theological writings, they stand among the most persuasive works of the sinner-turned-priest who was to exercise a greater influence on Christian thought than any of the other Church fathers.
		Augustine recalls the ecstasy he and his mother shared in Ostia and then reports her death and burial and his grief.
		Augustine explores the relation of the visible and formed matter of heaven and earth to the prior matrix from which it was formed.
	www.ccel.org /a/augustine/confessions/confessions.html (1329 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Works of St. Augustine of Hippo
		Augustine of Hippo (354-430) was one of the most prolific geniuses that humanity has ever known, and is admired not only for the number of his works, but also for the variety of subjects, which traverse the whole realm of thought.
		The Letters, amounting in the Benedictine collection to 270 (53 of them from Augustine's correspondents), are a treasure of the greatest value, for the knowledge of his life, influence and even his doctrine.
		Augustine in the "De Doctrinâ Christianâ;" (begun in 397 and ended in 426) gives us a genuine treatise of exegesis, historically the first (for St. Jerome wrote rather as a controversialist).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02089a.htm (1644 words)

	Saint Augustine
		Augustine was born in Tagaste, about fifty miles from Hippo in North Africa, in 354.
		Neither parent was a saint in the beginning; Monica became one in trying to bring her son to the Lord.
		In the time of Augustine, talented persons were pressed into the service of the Church, frequently despite their heated or tearful objections.
	www.osa-west.org /saintaugustine.html (1698 words)

	Saint Augustine of Hippo
		Augustine was born at Thagaste (modern Souk-Ahras, Algeria), a small town in the Roman province of Numidia.
		Augustine's counterattack emphasized unity, not division, as the mark of true Christianity and insisted that the validity of the sacraments depended on Christ himself, not on any human group or institution.
		Augustine must be reckoned as one of the architects of the unified Christianity that survived the barbarian invasions of the 5th century and emerged as the religion of medieval Europe.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txn/august.htm (2168 words)

	Augustine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Augustine of Hippo, (354-430) theologian, author of The City of God, Confessions
		Augustine, Florida, a city in the United States
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Augustine (96 words)

	Island of Freedom - St. Augustine
		Saint Augustine was one of the foremost philosopher-theologians of early Christianity and the leading figure in the church of North Africa.
		Augustine presently was attracted again to Christianity, and found Neoplatonism to be compatible with Christian beliefs.
		Augustine replied that unity was the mark of true Christianity and that the sacraments depended on Christ and not on human institutions.
	www.island-of-freedom.com /AUGUST.HTM (1043 words)

	Saint Augustine, Bishop and Doctor
		Augustine gives an account of his spiritual development in the first nine Books of the "Confessions" -- a work that has engrossed readers for 1600 years, and are as fresh and immediate today as when they were written.
		Augustine was thirty-three when he was moved to act on his convictions in that garden at Milan in September, 386.
		Augustine returned to Africa in August 388, and, with the objective of living a life of poverty and prayer, he sold his property and gave the proceeds to the poor.
	www.wf-f.org /StAugustine.html (1991 words)

	Augustine
		Born to a Christian mother and pagan father at Tagaste in North Africa, Augustine was a confirmed Manichaean during his early years as a student and teacher of rhetoric at Carthage and Rome.
		Augustine argued against the skeptics that genuine human knowledge can be established with certainty.
		But it was by reference to the abstract philosophy of Plato that Augustine sought to prove the existence of god.
	www.philosophypages.com /ph/augu.htm (294 words)

	Augustine, Saint -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Augustine, fresco by Sandro Botticelli, 1480; in the church of Ognissanti, Florence.
		also called Saint Augustine of Hippo, original Latin name Aurelius Augustinus feast day August 28, bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430, one of the Latin Fathers of the Church, one of the Doctors of the Church, and perhaps the most significant Christian thinker after St.
		Augustine's adaptation of classical thought to Christian teaching created a theological system of great power and lasting influence.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9109388 (961 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Augustine (who was a hard-core hedonist before his sudden conversion) writes about faith with the reckless abandon of a lover; his descriptions of friendship are so beautiful they'll bring tears to your eyes; and his tributes to his mother, Monica, cast eternally fresh light on the unofficial authority of women in the early Church.
		Augustine gives much praise to his mother, but it's important to remember that he was writing this account after his conversion.
		Augustine was a wonderful philosopher/thinker and his writings have been the subject of many discussions throughout history since it was written in 397 A.D. However, the Confession was written in a prayer-like manner addressing various issues making it difficult to focus on the subject for long periods of time.
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	Amazon.com: Books: Saint Augustine (Penguin Lives) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Much of Wills's task is demythologizing: Augustine was not a central figure in 4th-century Christianity but was "peripheral in his day, a provincial on the margins of classical culture," who did not know Greek, the intellectual lingua franca of his time.
		Augustine was not pleased with the birth, though Godsend became a constant companion until his birth after Augustine returned to Africa.
		Augustine's life was that of a writer on the relationship between God and his people.
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	Saint Augustine
		Augustine is a port of entry, a shrimping and commercial fishing center, and a popular year-round resort.
		Augustine repelled attacks by South Carolinians in 1702–3 and in 1740 by James
		In 1821, Spain ceded Florida to the United States, and St. Augustine grew rapidly until the Seminole War in the 1830s.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/us/A0842991.html (296 words)

	The Mission of St. Augustine of Canterbury to the English.
		The Mission of St. Augustine of Canterbury to the English.
		The Christianity in Britain before the Mission of St. Augustine of Canterbury.
		The consecration of Augustine as Archbishop of Canterbury
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	Catholic Online - Saints & Angels - St. Augustine of Hippo
		Augustine of Hippo is the patron of brewers because of his conversion from a former life of loose living, which included parties, entertainment, and worldly ambitions.
		It was just what Augustine needed, for in it, St. Paul says to put away all impurity and to live in imitation of Jesus.
		He was baptized, became a priest, a bishop, a famous Catholic writer, Founder of religious priests, and one of the greatest saints that ever lived.
	www.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=418 (483 words)

	SAINT AUGUSTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH, BASILE, LA
		Saint Augustine Church Parish was established on December 21, 1921,
		Saint Augustine was born in 345, at Tagaste, Africa.
		His writings have been accepted everywhere as one of the principal sources of devotional thought and theological speculation.
	www.geocities.com /st_augustine_basile (318 words)

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