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  • 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
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  • 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.
  • It seemed worthwhile sharing some photos taken by Vernon Quaintance from St. Augustine's Abbey in Ramsgate, which shows a recent Mass there in the modern form of the Roman liturgy, which was celebrated on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the monastic profession of the Very Rev. Dom Benedict Austen, OSB this past March 21st, 2009. St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate
  • Misjudging the survival of Romano-British life, Gregory had planned archbishoprics based on London and York, but political realities were acknowledged in 601 when Augustine was enthroned as first archbishop of Canterbury.
  • Plotinus' theology further promotes the relationship of Plato' ideas and gods, meanwhile, it evades the Person of God mentioned by Augustine.
  • See G. Leff, Medieval Thought: St Augustine to Ockham, passim.
  • Augustine was in a garden in Milan, overwhelmed by his sinfulness, especially his slavery to sexual desire.
  • Saint Augustine's 'City of God' is an allegory of the triumph of Good over Evil.
  • Finally, one must ask what specific ideas about God and man were accepted by Augustine in consequence of his baptism and confession of faith.
  • The security procedure at St Augustine's clearly is inadequate and must be improved urgently.
  • It was Augustine who got the Clinton administration to use taxpayer money to subsidize a series of defense industry mergers.
  • At the same time there were many clerics who did live in common, e.g. the cenobites, and the term canon was applied to them as early as the fourth century; but it must not be inferred from this fact that the office of canon has its origin in those who followed the cenobitical Rule of St. Augustine (see The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • I was so small my freshman year: 5-foot-nothing, 110 pounds," said Carrasco, who attended a private school called St. Augustine. The Seattle Times
  • He received Augustine kindly, and Monica held him in deep respect as a pastor.
  • Inherent in Augustine's lifelong concern to vindicate providence was his belief that no pain or loss is undeserved.
  • Inevitably, a selection of subjects from Augustine's voluminous writings reflects the particular interests and views of the author.
  • Although Pelagius was not a Donatist, Augustine and others felt that his ideas of salvation might lead the church in a Donatist direction because clergy would be judged by their ability to be free of sin. Augustine vs. Pelagius Part Four - The Politics of Free Will | Heretical Ideas Magazine
  • Those seeking an excellent introduction either to the thought of the mature Augustine or those needing material for catechetical instruction in the parish would do well to consult this timeless classic.
  • Drawing upon primarily Western theological sources, Augustine and Aquinas each offer a doctrine of deification that is distinct from Eastern conceptions.
  • After leaving Perth he was a priest at the Anglican Church of St Augustine at Bulli in New South Wales.
  • As a nonexpert on the subject, I find that she is too generous to Augustine. Bloodlust
  • Accordingly, St. Augustine treats the idea of antipodes as an absurdity; and Lactantius, whom we have already quoted, expressly says “can there possibly be any persons so simple as to believe that there are men whose heads are lower than their feet?” etc.St. Chrysostom exclaims, in his fourteenth homily, “Where are they who pretend that the heavens are movable, and that their form is circular?” A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Hence, as in Augustine, there is no intrinsic or surd evil; evil is justified as the means of developing man from bondage to self-conscious participation in the THEODICY
  • Augustine: 1975, De dialectica, ed. Jan Pinborg, translation with introd. and notes by B. Darrel Jackson, Dordrecht: Medieval Semiotics
  • Augustine was later to combine elements of this philosophy with the teachings of Christianity.
  • We could paraphrase St. Augustine as he described the importance of justice to a nation in "The City Of God. Another Army-Navy Game, Another Perspective
  • What's this all about?" bellowed Jameson, peering amazedly into the blank eyes of Augustine, who stood rigidly before the iconoscopic eyes and microphones. Archive 2010-03-01
  • In De doctrina Christiana (henceforth "DDC"), St. Augustine lays the groundwork for a good, spiritual exegesis by elucidating on the virtue of charity, and all that means. The Scriptural Roots of St. Augustine's Spirituality
  • St. Augustine in the north porch of St. Peter's Abbey church, afterwards known as St. Augustine's. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • In this place called St. Augustine we understood the king did keep, as is before said, 150 soldiers, and at another place some dozen leagues beyond to the northwards, called St. Helena, he did there likewise keep Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage
  • Augustine spent more than thirty years combating heresy, writing commentaries and interpretations of Christian theology.
  • He grants that St. Augustine would not term involuntary desires sin; then he adds, "We, on the contrary, deem it to be sin whenever a man feels any desires forbidden by Divine law -- and we assert the depravity to be sin which produces them" (Institutes, III, 2, 10). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • Augustine was later to combine elements of this philosophy with the teachings of Christianity.
  • Lewis Ayres says that the distinction between eros and agape does not work for Augustine.
  • Christianity soon disappeared, except among the Celts of Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. In 597, Pope Gregory I sent St. Augustine, the Prior of St.
  • Augustine was a renegade against his mother's religion; took profane mistresses and lapsed into Manichaeism, a religion whose dualism always had a strong appeal for him.
  • But this label prejudices the case in favor of Aquinas's perspective: it assumes that Marston has been seduced by an Islamic misreading of Aristotle, and it closes off the possibility that Augustine and Aristotle might have more in common than is typically allowed. Divine Illumination
  • His theological lodestar is Augustine, not Thomas Aquinas. Letters to the Editor
  • It is through grace, as Augustine explains, not merit, that God predestines his elect.
  • Reply Obj. 4: Augustine means that the matter ought to be made known to the prelate before it is stated to the witnesses, in so far as the prelate is a private individual who is able to be of more use than others, but not that it is to be told him as to the Church, i.e. as holding the position of judge. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • Had the Fall not occurred, says Augustine, “[Adam] would not have been divested of his body, but would have been clothed upon with immortality and incorruption, that ‘mortality might have been swallowed up of life;’ that is, that he might have passed from the natural body into the spiritual body.” Augustine vs. Pelagius - Part One: Man, the Fall, and Original Sin | Heretical Ideas Magazine
  • Christian religion was preached to the Saxons there (who domineered over the Britons too much, to care for what THEY said about their religion, or anything else) by AUGUSTINE, a monk from Rome. A Child's History of England
  • At Johanna, or possibly at St. Augustine's, some of our officers and men, moved by that queer propensity of mankind to acquire strange objects, however useless, had bought animals of the kind called mongoos. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life
  • In this place called St. Augustine we understood the king did keep, as is before said, 150 soldiers, and at another place some dozen leagues beyond to the northwards, called St. Helena, he did there likewise keep Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage
  • For Augustine, there are two fundamental objects of knowledge, the created and the Untreated, changeable nature and unchangeable Truth.
  • After Nestorius was condemned, Pelagius and his followers were again attacked by Augustine, Jerome, and others as heretics. Augustine vs. Pelagius Part Four - The Politics of Free Will | Heretical Ideas Magazine
  • One faith rises and another declines, the very scenario that prompted Augustine to write The City of God De civitate Dei after Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410. SuperCooperators
  • In this paper, we try to find the modem significance of natural theology out in the classical context, which focus on Cicero and Augustine.
  • In his self-description, however, Augustine does not push away his past as we so often do in our own self-assessments.
  • Saint Augustine's 'City of God' is an allegory of the triumph of Good over Evil.
  • The theological debates occasioned by this crisis of identity occupied the generation of Jerome and Augustine.
  • They in turn are flanked, as on the altar of St. Benedict, by two holy bishops, Saints Denis (the putto is holding his head) and Augustine (holding aloft his burning heart). Neuzelle Abbey
  • Where Livy seeks to build a seamless account of Rome's noble and quasi-mythological heritage, Augustine seeks to bring to light the logical contradictions, cruelty, and impiousness of pagan Rome.
  • Much less well educated than the lay society at Thagaste, which broke up on Augustine's departure, the Hippo brothers daily chanted the Psalter and biblical canticles.
  • ‘Let your memory be your codex,’ writes Augustine.
  • The sky was the color of slate and everything was damp and getting damper as a steady drizzle fell Friday afternoon on the boatyard of the St. Augustine Marina.
  • The authorities had forced students to do household chores and those who resisted were cruelly dealt with, Mr. Augustine said.
  • Short-growing, dense grasses such as bentgrass, hybrid Bermuda, St. Augustine and zoysia look best if cut with a power reel mower.
  • 293 Although this comment suggests dietetic recipes (which the Book of Life offers in plenitude), Ficino is also referring to ingredients digested by the memory — Augustine's "stomach of the mind" — including such ruminatory staples as letters, numbers, and ideas. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • You see the students here at Brother Martin high school, a mostly white school, but you're seeing these kids doing the skit here portraying players from the rival school, St. Augustine, which is predominantly black, and they're wearing these outfits with black shrouds over their faces. CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2009
  • Augustine as well as contemporary movements in phi - losophy encouraged — Wycliffe ran to predestinarian views which were calculated to lessen the role of church offices in the work of salvation. CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY
  • Augustine turned to Gregory for instructions on organization, management, and discipline.
  • If most laypeople of the thirteenth century were not directly familiar with Augustine's statement in the City of God that "works of mercy are performed for no other reason than so that we may be freed from misery and, thereby, be happy," certainly they were no strangers to the idea.
  • When Augustine died of sudden illness in the spring of 1743, his lands were divided among his sons.
  • Augustine preferred the simple numeration of days - first, second, third - a practice that is kept to this day in the Latin breviary (feria prima, feria secunda, etc.).
  • Augustine did not accept the old notions, popular among gnostic sects of the second century, that the Fall consisted in the serpent's seduction of Eve or that Adam and Eve fell by having sexual union before the proper time.
  • Benson, Mildred Augustine Wirt, Nancy Drew ghostwriter, Hepburnian air of, 118; as xylophonist, 118; as aviator, 118; on jam-and-jelly journalism, 118; De Niro qualities of, 118; ginger surplus of, 118-119 Who's Who
  • However, Saint Augustine realised that the essentially non-worldly nature of Godhead was not conveyed by these means.
  • As a teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in North Africa, Augustine was strongly influenced by Neoplatonic philosophy before his conversion to Christianity. Augustine vs. Pelagius - Part One: Man, the Fall, and Original Sin | Heretical Ideas Magazine
  • Hurricane warnings are out from Florida City and up through St. Augustine and Lake Okeechobee, as well, and the northwester Bahamas. CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2004
  • `Give me chastity, Lord," Augustine had prayed, `Give me continence But not yet! RIDDLE ME THIS
  • The 157-page report titled “Seeking a Human Spaceflight Program Worthy of a Great Nation,” does not differ from a preliminary report issued in August, but offers "substantiation" for their views, Augustine said. Committee Urges Multi-Destination Plan for NASA Human Space Flight | Universe Today
  • It was here that he baptized St. Augustine, and burst out with the grand _Te Deum Laudamus_, ascribed to him. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
  • Unlike Lactantius, Augustine did not treat the scientific scholarship of the ancients with ignorant contempt.
  • St Augustine's was the first church in Ireland to be built by voluntary subscription since the Irish Church was disestablished and disendowed.
  • But the incident which gives the movie its title involves Mr. Young himself, and a late-night march which he had been sent to St. Augustine to stop. Atlanta Film Festival report No. 1: "Crossing in St. Augustine"
  • St. Augustine, the latter did not contribute to hymnody but left us only an interesting rhythmical abecedary composed in the year 393 and intended for singing as the repetition verse proves. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • The persecuted Arians thought of themselves as making a last brave stand against irrationalist mystery-mongers (such as Augustine) and their rigid orthodoxies.
  • What were available were florilegia and manuals of various kinds that quoted Augustine extensively and arranged passages from Augustine's works under various topics. Archive 2005-05-01
  • Saint Augustine, as you know before he became a Christian, had quite a kind of licentious life, sexually, and lived with women and ... that kind of thing.
  • Over the years its been used by Vikings, Romans, Augustine brothers, warreners, Victorians, and soldiers in World War II.
  • In California and the Southwest, chinch bugs can suck the life out of zoysia and St. Augustine in summer.
  • Augustine was later to combine elements of this philosophy with the teachings of Christianity.
  • His poetry gives evidence of a bookish and extremely thoughtful life while encountering the forms and rituals of cultures without literatures — West African, Mexican and Central American — as well as the writers — Augustine, Goethe, Rilke, David Hume, Hugh MacDiarmid — whose traces we find allusively placed throughout his work. A mess of errors : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • For St. Augustine, resorting to war as a necessary evil is acceptable when it deters greater evil and is pursued in the spirit of justice.
  • Anselm of Canterbury, eleventh-century theologian, monk and Church hierarch, is arguably the major figure in the theological road from Augustine to Aquinas.
  • Augustine's "solution" to this problem was to allegorize the living daylights out of Genesis so it would support almost any theory. Augustine on Creation
  • Augustine was preaching on the duty his congregation had to conform with God's word: they must abstain from detestable pagan practices, divination, astrology, haruspication, and the like.
  • It is important to note that Augustine affirms the intactness of human free will even after the Fall: it is still we who act and love and choose, and we who are therefore responsible morally for what we do.
  • Augustine's critics fastened on the evident fact that his doctrine of predestination appealed to a partial selection of texts in scripture and had to use force on other texts which did not fit his thesis.
  • San Augustine is popular with snowbirds and retirees.
  • Augustine says: “The ‘Apostolici’ are those who with extreme arrogance have given themselves that name, because they do not admit into their communion persons who are married or possess anything of their own, such as both monks and clerics who in considerable number are to be found in the Catholic Church.” The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
  • Catholic theologians, from Jerome to Augustine to Aquinas to the Council of Trent, more or less followed Aristotle's distinction between "unformed" and "formed" or "animated" fetuses to argue that ensoulment, and therewith, fully human life begins not at conception but at some later point in embryonic development. John Seery: Pro-life Phoniness
  • Scrotes allowed, nevertheless, there was something in what MacMurrough had said and by way of illustrating this allowance he quoted from Augustine who had polluted the vein of friendship with the filth of desire—a phrase, Scrotes remarked, which would mean nothing to the Greeks, for whom friendship and desire were congenial if MacMurrough would forgive the paronomasia bedfellows. At Swim, Two Boys
  • It is a paradox that Augustine would not have accepted, but it is rooted in the pragmatic imagination as a workable metaphysics.
  • The present more orthodox incumbent was a tough man as well as an Augustine; accustomed to risky assignments in Cairo.
  • Why else would Augustine go to such lengths to allegorize scripture? Augustine on Creation
  • He therefore persuaded the primate of Numidia to consecrate Augustine to be coadjutor bishop of Hippo.
  • Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P. I would be much obliged if any of our readers can direct me to a book or publication that gives the music for singing the Latin "preces" in the Liturgia Horarum. Music Help for Preces in Liturgica Horarum
  • Was Augustine's reading of the text in keeping with the intention of those second-century Christians who first began to read the Epistle to the Romans as a canonical text?
  • But like Saint Augustine, I eventually came to realize the double-minded futility of pretending to exalt Reason while spending my days in slavish service to Kundalini and the lizard brain.
  • Augustine saw order as the supreme manifestation of providence.
  • Indeed, the jealous mothers of the gynarchies of the past would often step in between their sons and their wives in order to keep them tied to themselves - as, for instance, Augustine's mother did when she made him dismiss his concubine, who had lived faithfully with him for years.
  • Augustine had an aura like lop-eared rabbits and fluffy baby chicks that demanded even the most crotchety of old men stand up and take notice.
  • September is also the best month to fertilize both cool-season grasses and warm-season varieties like Bermuda grass, St. Augustine grass, and zoysia grass. Weekend Project: Start your fall lawn care during the Labor Day break
  • Augustine developed two basic inceptions of evil, the privative and the aesthetic.
  • Then there is Augustine, a really great man whom some call St. Augustine, as if a man could be a saint. Address by Chief Justice Walter Clark Before the Federation of Women's Clubs, New Bern, N. C., 8 May, 1913
  • He questioned whether the courts could give orders to Mr Mugabe and the police commissioner, Augustine Chihuri.
  • Unlike Lactantius, Augustine did not treat the scientific scholarship of the ancients with ignorant contempt.
  • Bahia, ryegrass, fine fescue, St. Augustine, and zoysia grasses need 2 to 4 pounds.
  • The Jewish philosopher, Philo, is the most important figure in the development of this kind of philosophical allegorization, though his influence is accepted to be greater on Christian than Jewish thinkers, most significantly on Augustine. Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy
  • Just re-visited the Augustine Commission's on-line web site 'hsf. nasa.gov' -- the Q&A packaged 'puff questions' are un - changed since yesterday -- the content and set-up are a farse, all softballs. First Briefing on Human Space Flight Review - NASA Watch
  • St Ambrose and St Augustine appear in roundels above.
  • I plan to put a little topsoil and St. Augustine grass plugs in these bare spots.
  • As Augustine just discussed in the Christian Heritage quote for today, concupiscence becomes sin - and thus a barrier between us and God - only when we consent to its desires, not simply when we experience and manfully resist them.
  • Mysti - cal interpretations of the number four go back at least to the Neo-Pythagoreans, and Philo Judaeus, imitated by Ambrose and Augustine, had long ago identified the Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • And bicause the moonkes of S. Augustine might not celebrate diuine seruice, she called thither commonlie the moonks of Christes church to say seruice before hir. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (4 of 12) Stephan Earle Of Bullongne
  • Select quotations from Augustine's anti-Donatist writings enabled some medieval canonists to make him look as if he were justifying the stern measures against heretics adopted in the later middle ages.
  • As for eudaemonism, sure, I follow Professor Long on this point although, my conception of virtue is colored by my reading Augustine, the theurgic neoplatonists, and the “Blue Socialist” tradition of William Cobbett and John Ruskin. Abortion on demand and without apology (Kiwi edition)
  • Learned critics, such as Harnack, have called Augustine The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • Richard Rorty says twice that St Augustine was involved in the fight against the Arians.
  • The ultimate consequence of this idea, and one that Augustine did not shirk from, was that unbaptized infants are damned. Augustine vs. Pelagius - Part One: Man, the Fall, and Original Sin | Heretical Ideas Magazine
  • Only four years before, St. Augustine's City of God had laid the theological groundwork for the church to step into the void left by the collapsing Roman Empire Ever since, Western civilization and the Christian enterprise have been joined together for better or worse; the church has moved and countermoved, advanced backtracked, tottered and triumphed before the contingencies of history. TIME.com: Top Stories
  • Whatever fasts a vowess might neglect as non-obligatory, it seems probable that she would not willingly forgo any opportunity of showing reverence to the Blessed Virgin, who, in the belief of St. Augustine, had taken vows of chastity before the salutation of the Angel. The Customs of Old England
  • After leaving Perth he was a priest at the Anglican Church of St Augustine at Bulli in New South Wales.
  • The so-called comminative psalms must always remain a difficulty, few would be now prepared to defend St. Augustine's view that they expressed not a desire but a real prescience of what would happen ( "Contra Faustum" xvi, 22, and The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • The community was quietist, contemplative in spirit, and rather donnish, with Augustine as acknowledged leader providing answers to questions raised in the discussions.
  • But more importantly, the reason Augustine is careful about the word 'person' in V.9 is not that he is in doubt about whether there are persons in God, but the purely historical fact that 'persona' as the Latin term had to be recruited from a meaning that didn't exactly fit the Greek word 'hypostasis'; he points out the well-known fact that "three hypostaseis in one ousia" sounds very confusing to Latin ears, because the natural way to translate this would be "three substantiae in one essentia," which is not what the Latins would say because they would tend to regard "substantia" and "essentia" as synonyms. Archive 2005-02-01
  • Some came in quest of physical health, and Augustine was never slighting about those who did so, though the catechists should teach them that religion had higher ends.
  • Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, as adelantado of Florida, founded St. Augustine, captured Fort Caroline, and slew the garrison, securing Spanish control of the peninsula of Florida. D. The Gulf Coast, Florida, and the Carolinas
  • The development of monasticism introduced a dualism into Christian morality, in that it proposed for the ascetes a morality essentially different from that of the rest of the Christian world, the latter being based upon the divine command, and the former upon pretended divine counsels; with this error were more or less affected Lactantius, Ambrose, Chrysostom, Jerome, and Augustine. Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.
  • In the spandrel above Saint George sits Saint Augustine, who appears as a hermit dressed in the habit of the Eremitani (also known as the Austin friars), wearing a scapular, his bishop's miter resting at his feet.
  • The persecuted Arians thought of themselves as making a last brave stand against irrationalist mystery-mongers (such as Augustine) and their rigid orthodoxies.
  • We should not, however, assume from this that for Augustine-or for us-this parable is dispensable, a redundant repetition of a message that we already know from elsewhere.
  • Religious scholar and philosopher, Augustine produced works, principally his Confessions and his City of God, that are classics in both the philosophy of religion and Christian doctrine.
  • The most important of all the leaders of Christian thought was Augustine of Hippo who lived in North Africa in the fifth century.
  • Augustine was later to combine elements of this philosophy with the teachings of Christianity.
  • Based on this premise, Augustine postulated that any war ordained by God was, by default, just.
  • But thirteen years have passed, and Augustine was now responsible for ministering the word and sacraments to his people.
  • On one of the hills on the estate is a monolith known as St Augustine's stone, which is said to have been in some way connected with Druidical worship, while Drewton itself is a corruption of the name ‘Drewid's Town’.
  • The importance of Augustine and Boethius for developing the idea of eternality has already been noted. Eternity
  • The last years of Augustine's life were devoted to sharp exchanges with him, in which fair comment was mingled with vulgar abuse.
  • Yet, as he shows, it was characteristic and effective in the hands of churchmen like Athanasius, Augustine, Bernard, Anselm, and Calvin.
  • Though the Bible from Philo Judaeus and Augustine on needs exegetical glossing, it remains the Word of God, the Old linked to the New through prefigurative typology. MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES
  • But questions of faith and morals, said Augustine, were concerns of the Church alone.
  • St. Augustine in the north porch of St. Peter's Abbey church, afterwards known as St. Augustine's. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • The point is that horror fiction, especially gothic horror fiction seems to owe a debt to St Augustine.
  • After a processional led by the St. Augustine Gospel Choir, the couple was married under a honeylocust tree at Purcellville's Grandale Farm while guests watched from hay bales draped in vintage tablecloths. Anabeth Guthrie & Timothy Chapin
  • As saieth sainct Augustine, the countrie called Assiria, was so named of Assur, the sonne of Sem. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • When the weather cooperates, you could spend several days in the historic city of St. Augustine, which is on the Atlantic coast about 100 miles northeast of Orlando. PhillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed
  • There was an apple tree and an avocado in the front yard, surrounded by thick St. Augustine grass.
  • Though the Bible from Philo Judaeus and Augustine on needs exegetical glossing, it remains the Word of God, the Old linked to the New through prefigurative typology. MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES
  • DREW GRIFFIN, CNN ANCHOR: On the northeast coast of Florida, the historic city of St. Augustine, that is where our reporter from WLTV affiliate out of Jacksonville, Maria Tsataros is on the line. CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2004
  • Although, to Augustine, the Salvation of the Elect was foreknown by God before the creation of the universe, the Church also plays a vital role in Salvation. Augustine vs. Pelagius Part Two - Grace, Salvation, and Redemption | Heretical Ideas Magazine
  • Many warm-climate grasses (Saint Augustine and hybrid Bermuda) are typically started from sod (or from pieces of vegetation called sprigs or stolons)—not from seeds. How To Buy & Sell just about Everything
  • St. Augustine then goes on to mention "Veni, redemptor gentium" indirectly. An Office Hymn Tune Compendium, Part VI
  • The word skittered across Augustine’s soul like a rat on ice. Black Dust Mambo
  • Especially beautiful is his rhythmus, often ascribed to St. Augustine: The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • Augustine (S.), Benedictine House at Canterbury: extract from custumary on care of MSS., The Care of Books
  • Hence Augustine says (Ep. cxxvii, ad Arment. et Paulin.): "He is a kind and not a needy exactor, for he does not grow rich on our payments, but makes those who pay Him grow rich in Him. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • AND that all the dark portents of late (the Augustine II review, rumors of "possible cuts to human spaceflight", etc) do not forbode a retreat from real (vs 'more advanced studies') exploration beyond LEO. Bolden Watch - NASA Watch
  • Although I consider myself somewhat of an Augustinian Catholic which got me anathematized by Aster in an earlier thread - quoting Augustine is SO not the way to impress me. In which commentary becomes copy-and-paste
  • Satan," in Greek "daimon" because he is a spiritual being possessed of extraordinary powers, also "diabolos," because he is a calumniator who accuses those whom he has deceived with false sin, the being whom Augustine said possesses intelligent reasons for what he urges others to do. THE IRATE NATION
  • Vanity, pride, pettiness and a desire to impose one's will on others are among the effects of original sin which Augustine discusses at some length and he says explicitly that Adam and Eve held God's original command in contempt because they were "puffed up with pride" ( "elatus superbia"). Sex and Sin
  • For Augustine, in a long discussion refutes the opinion of those who thought that concupiscence in man is not a fault but an adiaphoron, as color of the body or ill health is said to be an adiaphoron [as to have a black or a white body is neither good nor evil]. Apology of the Augsburg Confession
  • Two works of Augustine were central in establishing the tradition of Western thought con - cerning the nature and dignity of man as a consequence of the character of his creation in the “image” of God. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • In his Confutation, he erred in citing two pseudonymous patristic texts, supposedly from St. Cyprian and St. Augustine.
  • Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P. A kind friar has called it to my attention that three incunabula containing Dominican liturgical materials are now available in digital form on the web. Fifteenth-Century Dominican Breviary in Digital Form
  • Augustine Washington had been a surveyor, and George had access to his father’s instruments: a circumferentor an eighteenth-century predecessor of the theodolite and an expensive precision instrument, chains, drawing boards and instruments, and so on. George Washington’s First War
  • As to the rest -- what Augustine calls my dissoluteness -- I can't pretend to take your view; a nun's view. Amabel Channice
  • Through the first Puritan settlers, the predestinarian theology of Augustine and Calvin was injected into the mainstream of American theology and intellectual life.
  • But Augustine was a Chalcedonian before Chalcedon, and there is no doubt that he is here quoting familiar Scripture and filling it with the interpretation achieved by the long struggle of the Church to affirm the coeternity and consubstantiality of Jesus Christ and God the Father. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
  • I think he has applied his vast study of Augustine's writings on the redemptive power of suffering and the Church's teaching on purgatory.
  • Augustine replaces personality and humanity with the paramountcy and universality of God.
  • Soon there was also a house for nuns of which Augustine's widowed sister became ‘mother’.
  • GRIFFIN: Let's move up the coast to St. Augustine, that is where Kathleen Koch is standing by. CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2004
  • Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver), in the movie Avatar (2009), is an exobiologist and she runs the Avatar Program on Pandora. Dr. Grace Augustine | I Rate Science Fiction Doctors
  • According to Augustine, sin is concupiscence: that is, a compelling desire or drive to serve one's self rather than God.
  • Both Philo and Plutarch (De defectu oraculorum) anticipate the Christian Apologist Justin Martyr in explaining pagan myth, ritual, and oracles as the ac - tions of daimones, but Justin's interpretation of them as deceits of the fallen angels and their offspring demons (Dialogue with Trypho, A.D. 155) is the back - ground for Saint Augustine's treatment of the pagan gods in The City of God, Books 1-X. DEMONOLOGY
  • While the saint's dress denotes the eremitic character of the order of friars at S. Andrea, a remarkable and unexampled feature is the fiery red halo shining around Augustine's head.
  • Though it is never said that the non-elect are predestinated to damnation, Augustine was inclined to distinguish his view from Manichee dualism by stressing freedom in God, not freedom in man.
  • The passage from St. Augustine uncannily prefigures the couplet of Hafiz which I quoted above.
  • Aware, perhaps, that stories need interpretation, Augustine spells out the lesson about the sin of pride.
  • Augustine of Hippo was the most influential theologian of Latin Christianity.
  • Mont-Cornillon was the site of a leprosarium and monastery under the Rule of Saint Augustine, just outside the city walls of Liege.
  • In 597, Pope Gregory I sent St. Augustine, the Prior of St. Andrew's Monastery in Rome, to England to convert the heathen English to Christianity.
  • The brooding elegance of their clothes finds its counterpoint in the lustrous tapestried vestments of Ss Stephen and Augustine, who have descended from heaven to lower the warrior count, in his damascened armour, into his vault.
  • When Augustine was quite well again, and her boy no longer required the assiduous care which debars a mother from social pleasures, At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
  • In his Confessions Augustine redirected reason inward in a fateful focus upon the content and structure of his own mind and soul, as he now experienced them - illumined by grace.
  • Over the next few weeks, I will be working to support this idea by examining the Pelagian and Augustinian interpretations of Original Sin, examine their Salvation theologies, examine their metaphysics of God and evil, and finally examine the reasons why the orthodox Church accepted the ideas of St. Augustine. Augustine vs. Pelagius - Part One: Man, the Fall, and Original Sin | Heretical Ideas Magazine
  • St. Augustine nor Calvin denied the remanence of the will in the fallen spirit; but they, and Luther as well as they, objected to the flattering epithet 'free' will. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Imagine the annoyance of the Abbot of St Augustine at having his new almonry snatched out of his hands.

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