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.

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.

The Council of North African bishops, which included Augustine of Hippo, held at Carthage in 418 did not explicitly endorse all aspects of Augustine's stern view about the destiny of infants who die without baptism, but the Latin Fathers of the 5th and 6th centuries did adopt his position, and it became a point of reference for Latin theologians in the Middle Ages.

St Augustine of Hippo ( 354 – 430 ), demonstrated in The City of God that the dimensions of the Ark corresponded to the dimensions of the human body, which corresponds to the body of Christ ; the equation of Ark and Church is still found in the Anglican rite of baptism, which asks God, " who of thy great mercy didst save Noah ," to receive into the Church the infant about to be baptised.

The most notable among these was Augustine of Hippo, who equated natural law with man's prelapsarian state ; as such, a life according to nature was no longer possible and men needed instead to seek salvation through the divine law and grace of Jesus Christ.

( This was similar to what happened with Saint Augustine of Hippo, who had been ordained against his will in the year 391 by a crowd cooperating with Bishop Valerius in the north African city of Hippo Regius.

He was a contemporary of Saint Augustine of Hippo, who dedicated to him some of his works.

He took a decided view on the Pelagian controversy, confirming the decisions of the synod of the province of proconsular Africa, held in Carthage in 416, which had been sent to him, and also writing in the same year in a similar sense to the fathers of the Numidian synod of Mileve who had addressed him ( Augustine of Hippo among them ).

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

It was later used by the Church Fathers, in particular Saint Augustine of Hippo, who wrote that Christians should live a life of peregrinatio in the material world while awaiting the Kingdom of God.

What is certain is that once Orosius had left the Iberian Peninsula he was certain that his destination was Hippo ( now Annaba in Algeria ), and a meeting with Saint Augustine, who was the greatest thinker of his time.

We know seven bishops of Hippo, among them Saints Theogenes and Fidentius, martyrs, St. Leontius Valerius, who ordained St. Augustine, and the great " Doctor of Grace ", Augustine himself ( 354-28 August, 430 ).

* Favonius Eulogius, a Carthaginian rhetor who was contemporary with Augustine of Hippo and wrote Disputatio de somnio Scipionis.

For not only does he omit the name of St. Augustine of Hippo, who was especially obnoxious to them, when making honorable mention at any time of the champions of the faith, but he denounces his doctrine, though under a misrepresentation of it, as one of the forms of that novel error which he reprobates.

They follow the Rule of St. Augustine, written sometime between 397-403, for a monastic community Augustine founded in Hippo ( modern day Algeria ), and which takes as its inspiration the early Christian community described in the Acts of the Apostles, particularly Acts 4: 32: " Now the company of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had everything in common " ( RSV ).

Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas or Bossuet in his Discourse On Universal History ( 1679 ) formulated such theodicies, but Leibniz, who coined the term, was the most famous philosopher who created a theodicy.

Although Neoplatonic philosophers, who quote apocryphal works of Orpheus, Zoroaster, Pythagoras and other figures, almost never cite Hermes Trismegistus, the tracts were still popular enough in the 5th century to be argued against by Augustine of Hippo in the City of God,

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 ".

In A Third Testament, he profiles seven spiritual thinkers, whom he called " God's Spies ", who influenced his life: Augustine of Hippo, William Blake, Blaise Pascal, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Søren Kierkegaard.

Aristotle was the first to articulate an ethical understanding of common good, followed by Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas who developed the concept into standard moral theology.

However, Plotinus influenced Victorinus who then influenced Augustine of Hippo.

The designs were by Hugh Iorys Hughes who developed his " Hippo " piers and " Crocodile " bridge units on the Conwy Morfa, using 1, 000 men to build the trial version ; the Hamilton " Swiss Roll " which consisted of a floating roadway made of waterproofed canvas stiffened with slats and tensioned by cables ; and a system of flexible bridging units supported on floating pontoons designed by Major Allan Beckett, Royal Engineers.

Augustine of Hippo asserted that pagans " believed in what they read in their own books " and took Arion to be a historical individual.

In the fifth century, a debate that affected the understanding of grace in Western Christianity, and that was to have long reaching effects on subsequent developments in the doctrine, took place between Pelagius and St Augustine of Hippo.

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.

Hippo was an ancient bishopric and still is the name of a Roman Catholic titular see in the former Roman province of Numidia, since French colonial rule a part of the residential see of Constantine.

He taught that " to sing once is to pray twice " ( Qui cantat, bis orat ) Augustine of Hippo < cite > Sermons 336, 1 </ cite > PL 38, 1472 </ ref > and music is also a key part of the Augustinian ethos.

This concept has been attributed to St Augustine of Hippo as part of his refutation of the Donatist sect, but others question whether Augustine really held to some form of an " invisible true Church " concept.

High Evolutionary had a part in turning an ordinary zoo hippopotamus into the Hippo.

Augustine of Hippo is completely silent on the matter, which has been taken as evidence that the comma did not exist as part of the epistle's text in his time.

* Unusual Opening: The Hippo part 1 and part 2 videos at Youtube

Augustine of Hippo, who renounced his former Manicheanism, argued that slavery was part of the mechanism to preserve the natural order of things.

Augustine of Hippo, who renounced his former Manicheanism, argued that slavery was part of the mechanism to preserve the natural order of things ; John Chrysostom, regarded as a saint by Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism, argued that slaves should be resigned to their fate, as by obeying his master he is obeying God but also stated that Slavery is the fruit of covetousness, of extravagance, of insatiable greediness in his Epist.

Modern Calvinists often charge that the doctrine of unlimited atonement was first formalized during the beginning of the 5th Century AD as part of the debate between Augustine of Hippo and Pelagius.

Augustine of Hippo and his The City of God do for religious literature essentially what Plato had done for philosophy, but Augustine's approach was far less conversational and more didactive.

The term Augustinians, named after Saint Augustine of Hippo ( 354 – 430 ), applies to two separate and unrelated types of Catholic religious orders:

Augustine of Hippo, who originally had rejected violence in religious matters, later justified it theologically against those he considered heretics, such as the Donatists, who themselves violently harassed their opponents.

In 1572, Pope Gregory XIII, at the insistence of Saint Charles Borromeo, the Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, declared the Ursulines a religious order with enclosure under the rule of Augustine of Hippo.

Although a priest and bishop, he knew how to combine the practices of the religious life with the duties of his office, and his episcopal house in Hippo was for himself and some of his clergy, a veritable monastery.

There were still other monks who were priests and who exercised the ministry outside of the episcopal The religious life of the Bishop of Hippo was, for a long time, a matter of dispute between the Canons Regular and the Hermits of St. Augustine, each of these two families claiming him exclusively as its own.

The teaching concerning religious poverty is clearly formulated in the sermons " De vitâ et moribus clericoreun suorum " and the authorship of these two works is sufficient to earn for the Bishop of Hippo the title of Patriarch of monks and religious.

Victorinus ' religious conversion from Platonism to Christianity ( c. 355 ), " at an advanced old age " according to Jerome, made a great impression on Augustine of Hippo, as recounted in Book 8 of the latter's Confessions.

She was a contemporary of, and well known to, Abba Macarius and other Desert Fathers in Egypt, Saint Jerome, Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Paulinus of Nola ( her cousin or cousin-in-law ; he gives a colorful description of her visit to Nola in his Letters ), and Evagrius of Pontus, and she founded a religious community on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

From at least the time of Augustine of Hippo in the 5th Century, " righteousness " has been seen as a moral and religious quality.