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

* Augustine of Hippo ( 354-430 AD )

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 )

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.

* Augustine of Hippo ( 354-430 )

* 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 .).

* Augustine ( 354-430 )

Augustine ( 354-430 ),

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.

As Augustine said, “ we believe that which is absent, but we see that which is present .”

He said that Democritus, Plato, Augustine, and Grosseteste far outranked Aristotle.

Thus, writing to St. Jerome, St. Augustine said, " If that opinion of the creation of new souls is not opposed to this established article of faith let it be also mine ; if it is, let it not be thine.

Bede reports that Augustine is said to have then delivered a prophecy that the British church's failure to proselytize the Saxons would bring them war and death at their hands.

Mellona or Mellonia was an ancient Roman goddess said by St. Augustine to promote the supply of honey ( Latin mel, mellis ), as Pomona did for apples and Bubona for cattle.

Father Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, a Catholic priest, who was a former Russian prince, visited the Wilmore household with a view to reconciling the differences of religion within the family and it was said that they had many earnest, controversial conversations, which eventually resulted in Godfrey's conversion to Catholicism.

The city of St. Augustine, Florida is home to the Fountain of Youth National Archaeological Park, a tribute to the spot where Ponce de León is traditionally said to have landed.

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 ).

* St. Augustine of Canterbury is said by the Venerable Bede to have landed with 40 men at Ebbsfleet, within the parish of Minster, before beginning his mission in Canterbury.

In 597 Augustine of Canterbury is said, by the Venerable Bede, to have landed with 40 men at Ebbsfleet, in the parish of Minster-in-Thanet, before founding Britain's second Christian monastery in Canterbury ( the first was founded fifty years earlier by Saint Columba on Eilean na Naoimh, in the Hebrides ): a cross marks the spot.

I have said, when they say well, and bring Scripture for them, I am of their faith ; and further Augustine requireth not to be believed.

The LCC bases these beliefs on what St. Augustine said: " The identical thing that we now call the Christian religion existed among the ancients and has not been lacking from the beginnings of the human race until the coming of Christ in the flesh, from which moment on the true religion, which already existed, began to be called Christian.

In Jean Joseph Gaume's Life of the Good Thief ( Histoire Du Bon Larron French 1868, English 1882 ), Saint Augustine said ; the thief said to Jesus, the child: " O most blessed of children, if ever a time should come when I shall crave Thy Mercy, remember me and forget not what has passed this day.

Following the example of St Augustine, he is said to have organized his cathedral clergy into a " congregation ," devoting a great part of their time to social exercises of ascetic religion.

After discussions in February and March 1916 with Chief Secretary Augustine Birrell – who did not believe press talk of an armed Irish uprising but wanted more troops as a deterrent-Friend ( Commander-in-Chief, Ireland ) and Wimborne ( Lord Lieutenant ) French said that he could spare only a single cavalry brigade as reinforcements, and later offered an extra reserve infantry brigade, although in the event Friend declined ( 7 April ) to make formal application for the brigade to be sent.

* Finally, St. Augustine of Hippo ( 354 — 430 ), arguably the greatest of the early Christian Fathers, said: " But he himself that justifies also deifies, for by justifying he makes sons of God.

" " To make human beings gods ," Augustine said, " He was made man who was God " ( sermon 192. 1. 1 )

Although it is worth mentioning that Augustine also said " a law that is not just, seems to be no law at all " and Thomas Aquinas indicated laws " opposed to the Divine good " must not be observed.

* Finally, St. Augustine of Hippo ( 354 — 430 ), arguably the greatest of the early Christian Fathers, said: " But he himself that justifies also deifies, for by justifying he makes sons of God.

" " To make human beings gods ," Augustine said, " He was made man who was God " ( sermon 192. 1. 1 )