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.

In principle it is a book intended for Saint Augustine and therefore it must have been written before Orosius arrived in Africa, between 409 and 414 as discussed above.

The Saint Augustine / Pelagius debate is mockingly discussed in the novel by Flann O ' Brien titled The Dalkey Archive, wherein Saint Augustine actually makes a ghostly appearance.

At the conference Obama and top officials as well as leaders in space discussed the future of U. S. efforts in human space flight and unveiled a plan for NASA that follows the Augustine Panel's " Flexible Path to Mars " option, modifying Obama's prior proposal in two important respects:

Augustine also discussed the commonalities between the Synoptic Gospels, including the identical language found in Matthew, Mark, and Luke.

Tertullian actively advocated traducianism ( that is, the parental generation of souls ), while some of the later Fathers — most notably Saint Augustine, at the outbreak of Pelagianism — began to question the creation by God of individual souls and to incline to the opposite opinion, which seemed to facilitate the explanation of the transmission of original sin.

When the Western Roman Empire was starting to disintegrate, Augustine developed the concept of the Catholic Church as a spiritual City of God ( in a book of the same name ), distinct from the material Earthly City.

The shock of this event reverberated from Britain to Jerusalem, and inspired Augustine to write his magnum opus, The City of God.

From St. Augustine of Hippo's City of God through St. Thomas More's Utopia major Christian writers defended ideas that socialists found agreeable.

St. Augustine made use of the figure of Lucretia in The City of God to defend the honour of Christian women who had been raped in the sack of Rome and had not committed suicide.

Christine de Pizan used Lucretia just as St. Augustine of Hippo did in her City of Ladies, defending a woman's sanctity.

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.

Augustine, in his City of God, argued, instead, that God could not do anything that would make God non-omnipotent:

* Augustine, City of God and Christian Doctrine

Augustine also preached that one was not a member of his or her city, but was either a citizen of the City of God ( Civitas Dei ) or the City of Man ( Civitas Terrena ).

This led to murmuring that the gods of Paganism had taken greater care of the city than that of the Christian God, inspiring St Augustine to write The City of God, alternative title " De Civitate Dei contra Paganos: The City of God against the Pagans ", in which he claimed that whilst the great ' city of Man ' had fallen, Christians were ultimately citizens of the ' city of God.

Works such as Augustine of Hippo's The City of God synthesized current philosophies and political traditions with those of Christianity, redefining the borders between what was religious and what was political.

Augustine of Hippo ( A. D. 354 – 430 ) presented a classic teleological perspective in his work City of God.

* 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.

* 413: St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo begins to write The City of God.

* August 28 – Augustine dies during the siege of Hippo Regius at age 75, leaving behind his monumental work The City of God and other works that will have influence on Christianity.

* Augustine of Hippo publishes the De Civitate Dei, City of God.

* Augustine of Hippo, age 59, begins to writes his spiritual book De Civitate Dei ( City of God ) as a reply to the charge that Christianity was responsible for the decline of the Roman Empire.

One of the most important sources which preserve the theology of Jupiter and other Roman deities is The City of God against the Pagans by Augustine of Hippo.

St Augustine in his City of God writes " God is called omnipotent on account of His doing what He wills " and thus proposes the definition that " Y is omnipotent " means " If Y wishes to do X then Y can and does do X ".

This was essentially the position taken by Augustine of Hippo in his The City of God:

Secondly, there was the Augustinian position of an intimate relation between space time and matter ; all three, according to St. Augustine in the Confessions and the City of God, came into being as a unity and ways of speaking that purport to separate them-such as " outside the universe " or " before the beginning of the universe " are, in fact, meaningless.

Beatus followed the views of Saint Augustine whose work, The City of God, influenced the Commentaries which followed the premise that the History of the World was structured in six ages: the first five ones extended between the creation of Adam, and the Passion of Jesus, while the sixth, subsequent to Christ and contemporary to us, had to end with the unleashing of the happenings prophesied by the book of Revelation.