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

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.

42 ), and Theodoret ; also Augustine and ' Praedestinatus '; and in nearly all the legends on gems.

Furthermore, in the Enchiridion Augustine attempts to refute skepticism by stating, " y not positively affirming that they are alive, the skeptics ward off the appearance of error in themselves, yet they do make errors simply by showing themselves alive ; one cannot err who is not alive.

Some of Pope Gregory the Great ’ s letters survive that relate to the mission of St. Augustine to Kent in 597 ; these letters provide information about the mission specifically, but also can be used to draw conclusions about the state of Kent and its relationships with its neighbours.

It also is possible that Bede had the date of Æthelberht ’ s death wrong ; if, in fact, Æthelberht died in 618, this would be consistent with his baptism in 597, which is in accord with the tradition that Augustine converted the king within a year of his arrival.

Since these people would have to be descended from Adam, they would have had to travel to the other side of the Earth at some point ; Augustine continues:

Augustine did, however, recognise a phenomenon he called jubilation-sounds of exaltation without words ; commentators such as Richard Hogue speculate that the practice of singing in the spirit persisted in Augustine's era, although xenoglossia was no longer extant among Christian:

Laurence was part of the Gregorian mission originally dispatched from Rome in 595 to convert the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism to Christianity ; he landed at Thanet, Kent, with Augustine in 597, or, as some sources state, first arrived in 601 and was not a part of the first group of missionaries.

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.

However, Augustine does argue ( against the Manicheans ) that humans have free will ; however, their will is so distorted, and the Fall is so extensive, that in the postlapsarian world they can only choose evil.

Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.

Of the nineteen Gorcum martyrs, eleven were Franciscan priests ; Peter Ascanius and Cornelius Vican, laymen ; one Dominican, two Premonstratensian monks, a regular canon of Saint Augustine, and four secular parish priests.

His choice was severely criticized by Augustine, his contemporary ; a flood of still less moderate criticism came from those who regarded Jerome as a forger.

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 ).

Later he paid more attention to the Bible and early Christian writers, especially Gregory of Tours and Augustine of Hippo ; and thus he came to formal theology.

Hippo was a Tyrian colony on the west coast of the bay to which it gave its name: Hipponensis Sinus, first settled by the Phoenicians probably in the 12th century BC ; the surname Regius ' of the King ' was bestowed on it as one of the places where the Numidian kings resided.

In the summer of 430 the Vandals put the city of Hippo under siege as the aged bishop lay on his death bed ; he died 28 August 430.

The synods of the Ancient ( North ) African church were held, with but few exceptions ( e. g. Hippo, 393 ; Milevum, 402 ) at Carthage.

In Sydney, there are several altered examples of his work, namely St Benedict's, Chippendale ; St Charles Borromeo, Ryde ; the former church of St Augustine of Hippo ( next to the existing church ), Balmain ; and St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta, which was gutted by a fire in 1996.

The champions of this reaction fought under the banner of Augustine of Hippo though paradoxically undermined Augustine's doctrine of grace ; as a result, Baius ' heterodox-Augustinian predilections brought him into conflict with Rome on questions of grace, free-will and the like.

The region produced figures such as Christian Church writer Tertullian ( c. 155 – c. 202 ); and Christian Church martyrs or leading figures such as Perpetua and Felicity ( martyrs, c. 200 CE ); St Cyprian of Carthage (+ 258 ); St. Monica ; her son the philosopher St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo I (+ 430 ) ( 1 ); and St Julia of Carthage ( 5th century.

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.