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Manuscript of Augustine's letter from the 13th century. De videndo Deo (lit. ' On Seeing God ') is an epistle written by Augustine of Hippo regarding whether God can be physically perceived. [1] It is designated epistle 147 in the Augustinus-Lexikon. [2] The letter is addressed to Paulina, the wife of Armentarius, [3] and it has 54 chapters. It ...
The Works of Saint Augustine: A New Translation for the 21st Century. Translated by Hill, Edmund. Hyde Park, NY: New City Press. Bird, Benedict (2021). "The Development Of Augustine's Views On Free Will And Grace, And The Conflicting Claims To Consistency Therewith By John Owen And John Goodwin". Westminster Theological Journal. 83 (1): 73– 101.
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.
The book presents human history as a conflict between what Augustine calls the Earthly City (often colloquially referred to as the City of Man, and mentioned once on page 644, chapter 1 of book 15) and the City of God, a conflict that is destined to end in victory for the latter. The City of God is marked by people who forgo earthly pleasure to ...
One of the more notable assertions made by Augustine in De Genesi ad litteram is the idea that everything in the universe was created simultaneously in eternity by God and that the six-day structure presented in the book of Genesis represents how creation manifested itself in a temporal sense.
On the Trinity (Latin: De Trinitate) is a Latin book written by Augustine of Hippo to discuss the Trinity in context of the Logos.Although not as well known as some of his other works, some scholars have seen it as his masterpiece, of more doctrinal importance even than Confessions or The City of God.
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Augustine of Hippo (/ ɔː ˈ ɡ ʌ s t ɪ n / aw-GUST-in, US also / ˈ ɔː ɡ ə s t iː n / AW-gə-steen; [22] Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), [23] also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.