Questions tagged [augustine]
Questions on works and thought St. Augustine of Hippo, an early Christian author, philosopher and theologian, and their reflections in doctrine of various denominations.
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Identifying a source for this C.S. Lewis quote “This also is Thou: neither is this Thou” (possibly came from St. Augustine)
In C.S. Lewis's Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer Letter 14 about different ways of conceptualizing God's presence among His creation, balancing between complete otherness and Pantheism. The ...
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Where can I find an English translation of St. Augustine's Questions on Heptateuch?
Where can I find an English translation for St. Augustine's Quaestiones in Heptateuchum VII (Seven Questions Concerning the Heptateuch)?
The passage I'm interested in has the following Latin:
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Identifying a source for this C S Lewis quote (reflecting St Augustine and St Paul)
There is a C. S. Lewis quote from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe that resembles a famous quote by St Augustine.
Here is St. Augustine:
The very thing which is now called the Christian ...
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Did Augustine believe in Purgatory?
Purgatory was one of the doctrines the Reformers reacted most strongly against, though many Reformers claimed Augustine of Hippo as being in agreement with their theology. Did Augustine teach a ...
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What is the source of this quote from Augustine about thanking heretics?
I am trying to find the source or reference for the following quote by St. Augustine of Hippo (P. S.: I translated this from Arabic, so the verbatim of the English version must be different):
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Is the quote “there is no saint without a past and no sinner without a future” attributed to St. Augustine?
This quote is often attributed to St. Augustine, but I have not been able to find anything that cites where in his works he writes this, nor have I found any historical account where he says this in a ...
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Where does this famous St. Augustine quote about the repentant thief come from?
There is a very famous quote in French Catholic circles that would be translated as something like:
No, I had not studied the Scriptures, but Jesus looked at me on the
cross and, in his gaze, I ...
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Eschatology: Reformed and Roman Catholic?
I've heard that both Reformed and Roman Catholic eschatologies have Augustine as a major foundation. True?
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St. Augustine and woman sexuality? [closed]
Did Saint Augustine of Hippo say that "inter urinas et faeces nascimur" (we are born between urine and feces).
As I understand this fragment implied the inferiority of female sexuality as something ...
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What does it really mean [not able not to sin] according to Augustine?
From this link, it is said that a newly born baby in relation to sin enumerated by Augustine of Hippo is [not able not to sin] (non posse non peccare).
What I thought from that [not able no to sin] ...
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Does Augustine ever say that Christians in his time identify their Deus [God] with the Roman deity Saturn?
I first encountered this notion on p. 30 of R.S. Sugirtharajah's book The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters (2001, Cambridge University Press). In reference ...
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Why would orthodox Christians consider Christian Science unorthodox if it essentially a mix of Augustine and healing?
Why is Christian Science considered unorthodox?
How is Mary Baker Eddy's neo-platonism different from Augustine's,
Aquinas', Calvin's, Jonathan Edwards', et. al.?
How is her understanding of the ...
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Why do people die but angels do not, but both have sinned?
In City of God, Book XIII, Ch. 1, Augustine wrote,
Having disposed of the very difficult questions concerning the origin of our world and the beginning of the human race, the natural order requires ...
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Reference for this “New is in the Old Concealed” quote that is attributed to Augustine?
I've seen the quote, "The New is in the Old Concealed, the Old is in the New Revealed" (such as a question here or the second answer here) or a variation, "The Old Testament is the New Testament ...
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What work of Augustine is Aquinas Citing Here?
In Summa Theologica I q. 1 a. 10 ("Whether in Holy Scripture a word may have several senses?") ad 1, Aquinas writes:
Thus in Holy Writ no confusion results, for all the senses are founded
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Did St. Augustine think sexual pleasure = concupiscence?
Did St. Augustine think sexual pleasure and concupiscence are identical? If not, why do some people seem to think this? Concupiscence is simply a disorder in which the body rebels against the rational ...
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Calvin on Catholicity of a Doctrine
Calvin writes in chapter 7 of his 'Institutes of the Christian Religion:'
... But he [Augustine] nowhere insinuates that the authority which we give to the Scriptures depends on the definitions or ...
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What did Augustine mean by “The OT is the NT concealed. The NT is the OT revealed.”?
I've read this quote by Augustine several times over the years. Can you give me any examples of both parts of the quote to clarify it for me?
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What color was Augustine's skin?
Ok, let me start by saying I don't think more or less of a person because of the color of their skin. I consider racism to be both misguided and a sin. But, when I visualize a person, I like to think ...
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Was Saint Augustine a Calvinist on divine foreknowledge?
It is my understanding that Calvinism conflates God's passive will with His active will—i.e., the fact that He knows something will occur due to His divine foreknowledge and allows said thing to occur ...
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Which doctrine was formalised first: Infant Baptism or Original Sin?
What I mean is something like this :
Case A, Original Sin came first
because all newly born baby are going to hell if they die in their infant age
then let's do Infant Baptism so they don't go to ...
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St. Augustine's views on salvation through coercion
This question goes out to any denomination.
Why was St. Augustine okay with using force to convert unbelievers to the faith, which also resulted in the eventual Roman Catholic Church's inspiration ...
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Difference between Augustinianism and Calvinism
Is there a difference between Augustinianism and (Five Points) Calvinism as they relate to the doctrine of salvation?
If so, what is the difference?
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Where did Augustine say that the same fire that tortures the damned purifies the elect?
I've seen it quoted on internet sites that Augustine said that the same fire that tortures the damned purifies the elect. Supposedly he meant by this that the fires of Purgatory and Hell are the same. ...
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Was there a non-Augustinian response to universalism in the early Church?
Most are aware of Augustine's abandonment of his universalism and his later adoption of eternal conscious torment in literal fire. His rejection of universalism is ultimately founded upon a ...
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Where does this Augustine quote come from?
"Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained" -Augustine
Which work is this from?
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Why doesn't the Orthodox church consider Saint Augustine Doctor and Father?
Saint Augustine (Doctor Gratiae) is considered by Catholic and Anglican churches as:
one of the most important Church Fathers in Western Christianity for
his writings in the Patristic Era. (...
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Where did Augustine say “It is certain that few are saved”?
I've noticed on several sites Augustine is quoted as having said "It is certain that few are saved." Does anybody know the source? I find the quote curious because he ascribes certainty to his ...
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What is the source of this quote from St. Augustine?
In a sermon many years ago a priest (now dead) quoted a phrase from St Augustine :
God was drawn down from heaven by the weight of his love.
I realise that this is a translation from Latin & ...
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Did Augustine teach sola fide?
It is popularly taught that the reformers declared five distinctive elements of theology that differentiated them from Rome: salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, for the ...
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Which translation of Augustine's Confessions is the easiest to read in English?
Not all translations are created equal, and often the public domain ones freely available online are some of the worst.
Augustine fans out there – whose translation of Confessions is the best in ...
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How prominent was “prosperity theology” in the early church?
Prosperity theology, or the "health and wealth gospel," is a recent movement that teaches that God promises material blessings, in this life, to those who have faith in him and who do his will. ...
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Where does Augustine say that the rapture of the saved soul will “flow over” into the glorified body?
In The Weight of Glory, C. S. Lewis writes:
What would it be to taste at the fountainhead that stream of which even these lower reaches prove so intoxicating? Yet that, I believe, is what lies ...
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Where does Augustine say that Adam and Eve were in Eden for just six hours before sinning?
In Calvin's Commentary on Genesis, he spends some time dealing with the question of how long Adam and Eve were in the garden of Eden together before they sinned. He writes:
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Who is Augustine arguing against in his Confessions, book 12?
In Augustine's Confessions, book XII, chapters xvi–xvii (23–24), he writes about his disagreements with others over the proper interpretation of the Creation account in Genesis 1. Augustine holds that ...
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What is the scriptural basis for “Love God and do whatever you please”?
This quote has been attributed to St. Augustine, referring to what he said in a sermon on 1 John 4:4-12:
See what we are insisting upon; that the deeds of men are only discerned by the root of ...
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Missing work of St. Augustine in Latin?
I have been trying to look for a work of St. Augustine in Latin but I have had no luck of finding it. Not only that, I don't think it's been translated to English. It's called "La Fe, Dedicada a Pedro ...
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What was Jerome's defense for translating the Hebrew word קִיקָיוֹן (kikayon) in Jonah 4:6, etc. into Latin as hedera?
In the Vulgate translation of Jonah 4:6–7, 4:9–10, Jerome translated the Hebrew word קִיקָיוֹן (kikayon) into Latin as hedera, which is the equivalent of the English word "ivy."
Some, including ...
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In which writing(s) did Augustine assert that God exists outside of time?
According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, on the entry for “Eternity,” §3 (“The Eternalist View”), it is stated,
So, beginning with Augustine and Boethius, many thinkers have held the ...
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What does “persecute with cups” refer to in Augustine's first homily on 1 John?
Augustine, in his first homily on 1 John has a phrase that reads:
ut passiones martyrum imitetur, non eos calcibus persequamur!
Online it is translated:
that we should imitate the sufferings of ...
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According to Augustine, what's the difference between regenerate life and that before the fall?
In Augustine's four stages of the Christian life, is the Reborn Man in the same state as the Pre-Fall Man?
In which state was Christ the man while on earth?
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Did any Jesuit opponents of early Jansenism argue that Augustine was wrong on any points?
Cornelius Jansen is known as the intellectual father of Jansenism, a movement not unlike Calvinism in a few respects, like its emphasis on original sin and predestination. Jansen's book, Augustinus (...
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Why did Augustine attempt to stop Christians from walking barefoot?
In The Confessions, Augustine relates the story of an ascetic named Alypius who "tamed his body" to such an extent that "he went barefoot on the icy soil of Italy" (IX.vi). Henry Chadwick notes:
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Was Augustine opposed to the death penalty?
In Henry Chadwick's translation of the Confessions, I find him making a surprising claim:
Like most of the Church Fathers, Augustine was against capital punishment. (page 21)
The context is ...
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Are there any writings from the church fathers teaching Original Sin before Augustine?
It has been said by some that Augustine was the first to teach Original Sin,
"It was Augustine (354-430 A.D.) who first promoted the idea that; "the fallen nature of Adam was transmitted ...
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Did Luther have any disagreements with the teachings of Augustine of Hippo?
Did Luther have any disagreements with the teachings of Augustine of Hippo? The Wikipedia page on Luther doesn't mention any, and from my limited knowledge of Luther's books, I can't recall any either....
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St Augustine's saying on redemption [closed]
I have in my collection of quotes a beautiful saying of St. Augustine in Latin : MORS MORTIS MORTEM MORTI NON VINCISSET, JANUA ETERNA MANCISET CLAUSA , that is, If the death of death (Jesus )did not ...
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How did Augustine of Hippo feel about Jerome's Latin translation of the Bible (the Vulgate)?
Augustine and Jerome wrote several epistles to one another. In these epistles, how did Augustine feel about Jerome producing the Latin Vulgate? What were his concerns?
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What of Augustine's ecclesiology was rejected in the Reformation?
BB Warfield is famous for saying that the Reformation was a triumph of Augustine's soteriology over his ecclesiology. For those who believe that Augustine's ecclesiology was rejected in the ...
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Did Augustine often complain that his contemporaries burdened the church with their traditions?
In Martin Luther's Table Talk we find:
Augustine was the ablest and purest of all the doctors, but he could not of himself bring back things to their original condition, and he often complains that ...
