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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.
Early church fathers prior to Augustine of Hippo (354–430) refuted non-choice predeterminism as being pagan. [5] [6] [7] Out of the fifty early Christian authors who wrote on the debate between free will and determinism, all fifty supported Christian free will against Stoic, Gnostic, and Manichean determinism. [8] [9]
St. Augustine Freeing A Prisoner, by Michael Pacher (1482). The hypothesis takes its name from Augustine of Hippo, an early 5th century bishop and church father, who wrote: "Now, those four evangelists whose names have gained the most remarkable circulation over the whole world, and whose number has been fixed as four, ...are believed to have written in the order which follows: first Matthew ...
As a work of one of the most influential Church Fathers, The City of God is a cornerstone of Western thought, expounding on many questions of theology, such as the suffering of the righteous, the existence of evil, the conflict between free will and divine omniscience, and the doctrine of original sin. [2] [3]
Those fathers who wrote in Latin are called the Latin (Church) Fathers. In the Catholic Church tradition, Ambrose (AD 340–397), Jerome (347–420), Augustine of Hippo (354–430), and Pope Gregory I (540–604) are four Latin Church Fathers each who are called the "Great Church Fathers". [47] [48]
one of the Four Great Doctors of the Eastern Church: Athenagoras of Athens [2] 190: wrote in defense of the resurrection of the dead [4] Atticus [2] 420s Augustine of Hippo: 430: one of the Four Great Doctors of the Western Church (Doctor Gratiae) Aurelius of Carthage [7] 429 Aurelius Prudentius [2] [4] 413: commented on the Psalms [16 ...
They follow the Rule of St. Augustine, written sometime between 397 and 403 for a monastic community Augustine founded in Hippo (in modern day Algeria), and which takes as its inspiration the early Christian community described in the Acts of the Apostles, particularly Acts 4:32: "The community of believers was of one heart and mind, and no one ...
Hippo was the capital city of the Vandal Kingdom from AD 435 to 439. [1] when it was shifted to Carthage following the Vandal capture of Carthage in 439. It was the focus of several early Christian councils and home to Augustine of Hippo, a Church Father highly important in Western Christianity. [a]