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/ˈɑɡəˌstin, ˈɔɡəˌstin/
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- (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian church; after a dramatic conversion to Christianity he became bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa; St. Augustine emphasized man's need for grace (354-430)
How To Use Augustine In A Sentence
- Augustine or Aquinas at least had some attempts to nail down the philosphical problem: the problem with "superbia" (vanity) and "amor sui". Armed and Dangerous
- GRIFFIN: Let's move up the coast to St. Augustine, that is where Kathleen Koch is standing by. CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2004
- Augustine was a local boy who made good, a provincial from the southern edge of Fourth-Century Roman Africa, vain and enslaved to a fierce mother.
- I am not of Paracelsus's mind, that boldly delivers a receipt to make a man without conjunction; yet cannot but wonder at the multitude of heads that do deny traduction, having no other arguments to confirm their belief than that rhetorical sentence and antimetathesis [I. 51] of Augustine, "creando infunditur, infundendo creatur. Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
- Augustine undermines the question by pointing out that God did not bring creation into being at a certain definite moment in time, because time did not exist prior to creation. Augustine on Creation
- Of the first, saith S. Augustine: O the immeasured pity of our The Golden Legend, vol. 6
- Suicide, Augustine determined, was an unrepentable sin. Suicide
- Now obedience to a superior is due in accordance with the divinely established order of things, as shown above A. 1, and therefore it is a good, since good consists in mode, species, and order, as Augustine states.6 Again, this act has a special aspect of praiseworthiness by reason of its object. The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
- This evoked from Augustine the sad observation that there are crooks in every profession.
- As a young man, St. Augustine was well practiced in gratifying the desires of his fallen nature.