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Restless Heart: The Confessions of Saint Augustine (distributed in the US as: Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire, Italian: Sant'Agostino) is a 2010 two-part television miniseries chronicling the life of St. Augustine, [1] the early Christian theologian, writer and Bishop of Hippo Regius at the time of the Vandal invasion (AD 430).
Modern English translations of it are sometimes published under the title The Confessions of Saint Augustine in order to distinguish the book from other books with similar titles. Its original title was Confessions in Thirteen Books , and it was composed to be read out loud with each book being a complete unit.
Citing Augustine's famous quote of "You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you," John Paul argues that the human person naturally strives for God (as understood through whatever religion) as the full dimension of humanity. Thus, he states, systems such as Communism that deny this essential aspect of human ...
It was perhaps Augustine of Hippo who first coined the phrase incurvatus in se. [1] Martin Luther expounded on this in his Lectures on Romans and described this state as:
In the 2010 TV miniseries Restless Heart: The Confessions of Saint Augustine, Augustine is played by Matteo Urzia (aged 15), Alessandro Preziosi (aged 25) and Franco Nero (aged 76). [281] [citation needed] In 1967, American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan released a song entitled "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" as part of his album John Wesley Harding.
Augustine of Hippo, Sermo 117.3.5; PL 38, 663 si dormiam capiar: If I sleep, I may be caught: Motto of HMS Wakeful (H88) Si monumentum requiris circumspice: If you seek (his) monument, look around you: from the epitaph on Christopher Wren's tomb in St Paul's Cathedral. Si non oscillas, noli tintinnare: If you can't swing, don't ring
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Alypius came from an aristocratic family of Thagaste, a small town in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. He was a student of Augustine's in Carthage. [2] As Alypius’ friendship with Augustine began to deepen (Augustine called him the brother of his heart), so did his interest in Manicheism.