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Augustine of Canterbury (early 6th century – most likely 26 May 604) was a Christian monk who became the first archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597. He is ...
Augustine offered the Divine command theory, a theory which proposes that an action's status as morally good is equivalent to whether it is commanded by God. [16] [17] Augustine's theory began by casting ethics as the pursuit of the supreme good, which delivers human happiness, Augustine argued that to achieve this happiness, humans must love objects that are worthy of human love in the ...
Augustinian soteriology refers to Augustine of Hippo's (354–430) view on human salvation and God's providence.His thinking was shaped by early encounters with Stoicism, Neoplatonism, and Manichaeism.
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 and in the Eastern Orthodox Church as Blessed Augustine, [24] [25] was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North ...
Augustine's Acts or Disputation Against Fortunatus the Manichaean, which partly touches on the problem of evil, records a public debate between Augustine and the Manichaean teacher Fortunatus. Fortunatus criticised Augustine's theodicy by proposing that if God gave free will to the human soul, then he must be implicated in human sin (a problem ...
That year, a group of missionaries sent by the pope and led by Augustine of Canterbury began the Christianisation of the Anglo-Saxons. Augustine became the first archbishop of Canterbury. Throughout the Middle Ages, the English Church was a part of the Catholic Church led by the pope in Rome. Over the years, the church won many legal privileges ...
Augustine built a church at his foundation of Sts Peter and Paul Abbey at Canterbury, later renamed St Augustine's Abbey. This church was destroyed after the Norman Conquest to make way for a new abbey church. [143] The mission also established Augustine's cathedral at Canterbury, which became Christ Church Priory. [144]
Augustine's synthesis of Christian teaching with Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy helped establish the intellectual foundation of classical theism within the Christian tradition. [ 2 ] During the medieval period, classical theism was further refined by theologians such as Anselm of Canterbury and Thomas Aquinas .