Biebighauser, Jeffrey (2012) Augustine and the.
The difficulty of approaching Augustine is first a function of the sheer amount of words he wrote and said, and secondly a matter of the swath of genres in which he wrote and said them, and thirdly a matter of the variance of styles, intellectual positions, and temperaments which he adopted.
This dissertation is about Augustine's views on Church unity and authority and is primarily based on the letters that he wrote against the Donatists. Although Augustine is one of the Fathers most enthusiastically and thoroughly researched, his letters are less studied than his other works.
A political theorist's dissertation about St. Augustine's theories on love is the subject of the aptly titled book 'Love and St. Augustine' by Hannah Arendt, edited by Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott and Judith Chelius Stark. Reviewed by George McKenna.
Master Thesis and Doctoral Dissertations Anderson, Jamie Waters. 2004 Children as active agents: The archaeology of children in Spanish colonial St. Augustine. Masters thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville. Beidelman, Katherine. 1976 Ceramic means as indicators of socio-economic status in colonial St. Augustine.
The objective of this dissertation is to develop a new appreciation for how the gift of love traverses the distance between the intended signification of the Trinity and the impossibility--for us--of that very signification.Part I explores the promise of recent scholarship (e.g. that of L. Gioia, M. Hanby, P. Kolbet, L. Ayres) and interprets De Trinitate not as a metaphysical modeling of the.
Augustine was baptized by Ambrose at Milan during Eastertide, A.D. 387. A short time later his mother, Monica, died at Ostia on the journey back to Africa. A year later, Augustine was back in Roman Africa living in a monastery at Tagaste, his native town. In 391, he was ordained presbyter in the church of Hippo Regius (a small coastal town nearby).
This thesis will investigate, by means of the historical-critical method, Augustine of Hippo's understanding of the Manichaean idea of the Good, and how this understanding affects his own related notions of summum bonum and personal evil, and, as a corollary, his doctrine of predestination. The question of a possible Manichaean influence is particularly pertinent because Manichaeism is at.
The contrast between the spiritual journeys of Dante and St. Augustine is that Augustine’s journey is more confessionary, but Dante’s one is more psychological. St. Augustine and Dante as the lovers of beauty, both literary and physical, share the same need for its ransom. However, no one would state that beauty is harm or evil.
Finally, Dr. Wilson explores a curious split between St. Augustine's early and later writings and shows how the ideas presented in Augustine's later writings became the foundation for modern Calvinist (Reformed) theology, also known as Augustinian-Calvinism.
Colin Gunton argued that Augustine bequeathed to the West a theological tradition with serious deficiencies. According to Gunton, Augustine's particular construal of the doctrine of God led to fundamental errors and problems in grasping the relationship between creation and redemption, and in rightfully construing a truly Christian ontology.
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION to Be Published. Grace School of Theology is blessed to have one of today’s foremost Augustinian scholars serving on our faculty. Dr. Ken Wilson, Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History, spent years studying Augustine, ultimately choosing to make him the focus of his doctoral studies at the University of.
The purpose of this essay is to discuss a problem not of philosophy in general, but of the philosophy of religion. The subject is limited to one major problem in the field of the philosophy of religion, the problem of the relation of reason and faith. The problem of the relation of faith and reason, however, is to be considered in the writings of only one man, St. Augustine of Hippo.
Augustine’s impact on Reformation is considered. He is a father of the. the undersigned herby declare that this dissertation is my own work, that all sources have been accurately reported and acknowledged, and that this dissertation has not previously in it’s totality, or partially been submitted for the.
