In philosophy and the humanities, Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, was born in El Biar in Algiers ; Malek Bennabi and Frantz Fanon are noted for their thoughts on decolonization ; Augustine of Hippo was born in Tagaste ( modern-day Souk Ahras ); and Ibn Khaldun, though born in Tunis, wrote the Muqaddima while staying in Algeria.

This period had also known Augustine of Hippo, Nonius Marcellus and Martianus Capella among many others.

* Austin is a contracted form of Augustine of Hippo and Augustine of Canterbury.

** Monica of Hippo, mother of Augustine of Hippo

The same word in adjectival form ( purgatorius-a-um, cleansing ), which appears also in non-religious writing, was already used by Christians such as Augustine of Hippo and Pope Gregory I to refer to an after-death cleansing.

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He applied this knowledge as preacher, concentrating especially on exegesis of the Old Testament, and his rhetorical abilities impressed Augustine of Hippo, who hitherto had thought poorly of Christian preachers.

His advice to Augustine of Hippo on this point was to follow local liturgical custom.

St. Ambrose was also traditionally credited with composing the hymn Te Deum, which he is said to have composed when he baptised St. Augustine of Hippo, his celebrated convert.

The first half is based mainly on the Soliloquies of St Augustine of Hippo, the remainder is drawn from various sources, and contains much that is Alfred's own and highly characteristic of him.

The commentary itself was written during the papacy of Pope Damasus I, that is, between 366 and 384, and is considered an important document of the Latin text of Paul before the Vulgate of Jerome, and of the interpretation of Paul prior to Augustine of Hippo.

** Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo ( or ; ;

November 13, 354 – August 28, 430 ), also known as St. Augustine, St. Austin, or St. Augoustinos, was bishop of Hippo Regius ( present-day Annaba, Algeria ).

Beginning with Augustine of Hippo, many have seen a connection to Noahide Law, while some modern scholars reject the connection to Noahide Law () and instead see as the basis.

He adds that this last has been controversial in that it has been claimed that this aspect of the doctrine is not found before the time of Augustine of Hippo, while others allege that it is implicit in the Church of the second and third centuries.

Only later was it given a different meaning, a process in which Augustine ( Bp of Hippo Regis, 395-430 ) played a part by emphasising the idea of " the link from consecrator to consecrated whereby the grace of order was handed on.

The first Archbishop of Canterbury was St Augustine ( not to be confused with St Augustine of Hippo ), who arrived in Kent in 597 AD, having been sent by Pope Gregory I on a mission to the English.

That doctrine had been written about much earlier by Augustine of Hippo and was eventually defined a dogma by the Council of Trent.

In the monastic library at Jarrow were a number of books by theologians, including works by Basil, Cassian, John Chrysostom, Isidore of Seville, Origen, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, Jerome, Pope Gregory I, Ambrose of Milan, Cassiodorus, and Cyprian.

A 6th-century image of Augustine of Hippo | Saint Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius.

( Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 )

Augustine of Hippo ( 354-430 ) said that no one knew the appearance of Jesus or that of Mary.

Although he is not commonly regarded as a rhetorician, St. Augustine ( 354-430 ) was trained in rhetoric and was at one time a professor of Latin rhetoric in Milan.

Before the 18th century, the belief of many, including the Church Fathers Papias ( c. 60-130 ), Irenaeus ( c. 130-200 ), Origen ( c. 185-254 ), Eusebius ( c. 260-340 ) Jerome ( c. 340-420 ), and Augustine of Hippo ( c. 354-430 ), had been that Matthew was the first gospel to be written.

Saint Augustine most often refers to Augustine of Hippo ( 354-430 ), bishop, theologian and father of the Latin Church.

The Talmud ascribes the translation effort to Ptolemy II Philadelphus ( r. 285-246 BC ) who is said to have hired 72 Jewish scholars for the purpose, for which reason the translation is commonly known as the Septuagint, a name which it gained around AD 354-430, " the time of Augustine of Hippo ".

Saint Augustine ( 354-430 ) and St. Thomas Aquinas ( circa 1225-1274 ) concerned themselves exclusively with the idea of the just society.

" Augustine ’ s ( 354-430 ) influence shaped not only the Middle Ages, but it also influenced the Reformers, who constantly referred to his teaching in their own debates.

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* City of God, Chapter X St. Augustine ( A. D. 354-430 ) on latria

Archimandite ( later, Archbishop ) Chrysostomos wrote: " In certain ultra-conservative Orthodox circles in the United States, there has developed an unfortunate bitter and harsh attitude toward one of the great Fathers of the Church, the blessed ( Saint ) Augustine of Hippo ( 354-430 A. D .).

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They remained in existence ( along with their carnivalesque Bacchanalian street processions ) until at least the time of Augustine ( A. D. 354-430 ) and were an institution in most Romanised provinces.

Among the persons whose writings form the basis for Patristics, i. e. prominent early Church Fathers, are Justin Martyr ( c. 100-c. 165 ), Irenaeus of Lyons ( c. 120-c. 202 ), Clement of Alexandria ( c. 150-c. 215 ), Tertullian ( c. 160-c. 225 ), Origen ( c. 185-c. 254 ), Cyprian of Carthage ( d. 258 ), Athanasius ( c. 296-c. 373 ), Gregory of Nazianzus ( 329-389 ), Basil of Caesarea ( c. 330-379 ), Gregory of Nyssa ( c. 330-c. 395 ) Theodore of Mopsuestia ( c. 350-428 ), Augustine of Hippo ( 354-430 ), Pelagius, Vincent of Lérins ( d. bef.

In c. 409 AD, Augustine of Hippo wrote to Deogratias concerning the challenge of some to the miracle recorded in the Book of Jonah.

Latin was the language of the ancient Romans, but it was also the lingua franca of Europe throughout the middle ages, so Latin literature includes not only Roman authors like Cicero, Vergil, Ovid and Lucretius, but also includes European writers after the fall of the Empire from religious writers like St. Augustine ( 354 – 430 AD ), to secular writers like Francis Bacon ( 1561-1626 ) and Spinoza ( 1632 – 1677 ).

In Western culture, a letter written by St. Augustine of Hippo in 415 AD about a story of a dreamer, Doctor Gennadius, refers to lucid dreaming.

Augustine of Hippo ( AD 354 – 430 ) converted to Christianity from Manichaeism, in the year 387.

St Augustine of Hippo ( 354 AD – 430 ) in his Augustinian theodicy focuses on the Genesis story that essentially dictates that God created the world and that it was good ; evil is merely a consequence of the fall of man ( The story of the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve disobeyed God and caused inherent sin for man ).

The Augustinian theodicy is based on the writings of Augustine of Hippo, a Christian philosopher and theologian who lived from 354 to 430 AD.

In AD 400, Augustine quotes Cyprian ( AD 200 ): " For as Christ says ' I am the true vine ,' it follows that the blood of Christ is wine, not water ; and the cup cannot appear to contain His blood by which we are redeemed and quickened, if the wine be absent ; for by the wine is the blood of Christ typified, ..."

* The City of God ( written 413 – 426 AD ) by Augustine of Hippo, describes an ideal city, the " eternal " Jerusalem, the archetype of all Christian utopias.

The school originated as a medieval cathedral school, and it is often claimed ( e. g. by the historian Arthur Leach in a letter to The Times in 1896, and in the Guinness Book of Records ) to have been founded in AD 597 by St. Augustine, therefore making it the world's oldest extant school.

In 597 AD, Pope Gregory the Great sent Augustine to convert King Æthelberht of Kent to Christianity.

It was used by St. Augustine ( 4th and 5th centuries ), in his De Ordine, applying the terms rhythmic ( percussion and strings ), organic ( winds ), and adding harmonic ( the human voice ); Isodore of Seville ( 6th to 7th centuries AD ); Hugh of St. Victor ( 12th century ), also adding the voice ; Magister Lambertus ( 13th century ), adding the human voice as well ; and Michael Pretorius ( 17th century )( Kartomi, 1990, pp. 119 – 21, 147 ).

Scholars such as Christopher Snyder believe that during the 5th and 6th centuries — approximately from 410 AD when Roman legions withdrew, to 597 AD when St. Augustine of Canterbury arrived — southern Britain preserved a sub-Roman society that was able to survive the attacks from the Anglo-Saxons and even use a vernacular Latin for an active culture.

Around 400 AD, Saint Augustine, a prominent Roman bishop, described a pastor's job: Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low-spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, litigants pacified, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved.

Authorship is traditionally ascribed to Saints Ambrose and Augustine, on the occasion of the latter's baptism by the former in AD 387.

De Civitate Dei, ( full title: De Civitate Dei contra Paganos ), translated in English as The City of God, is a book of Christian philosophy written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century AD.

It stands opposed to monergism, a doctrine most commonly associated with the Lutheran and Reformed Protestant traditions, whose soteriologies have been strongly influenced by the North African theologian Augustine of Hippo ( AD 354 – 430 ).

Their observation in Britain, however, was embraced earlier than in Gaul or Spain, interestingly, and Christian sources connect the Ember Days observations with Augustine of Canterbury, AD.

* Dr. Edwin Lindsey ( 1983 AD )-An archaeologist exploring Cambodian ruins under the auspices of a mysterious benefactor named Paul Augustine.

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