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 asserted that this was a personal, philosophical stance:

The Eastern Church asserted that the Holy Spirit " proceeds " from the Father alone ( as stated in the original Nicene Creed ), while Augustine of Hippo and the medieval Catholic Church added the " filioque " clause to the Creed ( the Spirit proceeds from the Father " and the Son ").

Augustine asserted that " it is too absurd to say that some men might have set sail from this side and, traversing the immense expanse of ocean, have propagated there a race of human beings descended from that one first man.

St Augustine ’ s book The City of God contains two chapters indicating a debate between Christians and pagans over human origins: Book XII, chapter 10 is called " Of the falseness of the history that the world hath continued many thousand years ", while that of book XVIII, chapter 40 is " The Egyptians ’ abominable lyings, to claim their wisdom the age of 100, 000 years ".

The passage of Pseudo-Clement stands within a Western Christian tradition of satire against the variety of minor deities worshipped by classical pagans ; similar passages exist in The City of God by Saint Augustine of Hippo, and Tertullian's Ad Nationes.

Augustine believed that salvation is available to those who are worthy of it, through faith in Christ.

Nicene Fathers such as Augustine believed that marriage was a sacrament because it was a symbol used by Paul to express Christ's love of the Church.

Some modern writers describe Justus as one of the original missionaries who arrived with Augustine in 597, but Bede believed that Justus came in the second group.

He declared his own agreement with Scotus, and believed himself to be supported by Saint Ambrose, Saint Jerome, Augustine, and other authorities.

" A dangerously pagan work ," the Metamorphoses was preserved through the Roman period of Christianization, but was criticized by the voices of Augustine and Jerome, who believed the only metamorphosis really was the transubstantiation.

Arminius also believed that the sublapsarian unconditional predestination view of Augustine and Martin Luther is unscriptural.

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 ).

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.

William Washington ( not to be confused with William Augustine Washington of Westmoreland County, Virginia ) was raised with a Southern planter upbringing and believed in the values of being a gentleman.

Augustine supported Plato's view that a well-ordered soul is a desirable consequence of morality ; unlike Plato, he believed that achieving a well-ordered soul had a higher purpose: living in accordance with God's commands.

Augustine of Hippo, Pope Innocent VIII, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Peter of Paluda, Martin of Arles and Ludovico Maria Sinistrari believed that demons could fecundate women, but Ulrich Molitor, Heinrich Kramer, Jacob Sprenger and Nicholas Remy disagreed.

Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, believed that marriage was a sacrament, and wrote: " the first natural bond of human society is man and wife.

Many early Christians, including Tertullian, Chrysostom and Augustine, believed that fossils were the remains of animals that were killed and buried during the brief duration of the Flood.

Thus, it is believed by some authors he promoted Latin sacred music for use during the eucharistic worship and composed a number of liturgical hymns, among which some twentieth-century scholars number the major Latin Christian hymn of praise, Te Deum, traditionally attributed to Saints Ambrose and Augustine.

St. Augustine wrote in the year 388 of the Manichaeans, who believed that it was immoral to create children, and thus ( according to their belief system ) trap souls in mortal bodies.

This he believed to be the teaching of St Augustine, as well as of St Thomas, of whom he was an ardent admirer and defender.

Lewis cites ancient thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle and Augustine, who believed that the purpose of education was to train children in " ordinate affections ," that is, to train them to like and dislike what they ought ; to love the good and hate the bad.

" Following St. Augustine and Cicero, he believed in " human heart "- based government.