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, De civitate dei xviii. 8 – 9

Isidore's De fide catholica contra Iudaeos furthers Augustine of Hippo's ideas on the Jewish presence in Christian society.

* De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) ( text by St. Augustine of Hippo ) for female chorus, percussion ensemble, orchestra ( 6 flutes, 2 alto flutes, 3 clarinets, contrabass clarinet, 6 trumpets, 2 harps, 2 pianos, Hammond organ, strings, 2 bass guitars )

* Cicero, De republica in uncials, of the 4th century, the sole surviving copy, covered by St Augustine on the Psalms, of the 7th century, Vatican Library

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.

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.

Peter the Deacon gives a list of some seventy books Desiderius had copied at Monte Cassino, including works of Saint Augustine, Saint Ambrose, Saint Bede, Saint Basil, Saint Jerome, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus and Cassian, the registers of Popes Felix and Leo, the histories of Josephus, Paul Warnfrid, Jordanes and Saint Gregory of Tours, the Institutes and Novels of Justinian, the works of Terence, Virgil and Seneca, Cicero's De natura deorum, and Ovid's Fasti.

* 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.

* Saint Augustine of Hippo, De Civitate Dei IV, 8 ( Latin )

Western Christianity is thought to hold this doctrine because of the influence of Saint Augustine who wrote: " the deliberate sin of the first man is the cause of original sin " ( De nupt.

The books origins were a response to Saint Augustine ’ s express desire for a book that would complement his De Civita Dei which is a history focused on the pagan races.

* Augustine, De civitate dei xviii. 23

It was used by St. Augustine ( 4th and 5th centuries ), in his De Ordine, applying the terms rhythmic ( percussion and strings ), organic ( winds ), and adding harmonic ( the human voice ); Isodore of Seville ( 6th to 7th centuries AD ); Hugh of St. Victor ( 12th century ), also adding the voice ; Magister Lambertus ( 13th century ), adding the human voice as well ; and Michael Pretorius ( 17th century )( Kartomi, 1990, pp. 119 – 21, 147 ).

The cross is also shorter than the cross at the Mission Nombre De Dios in St. Augustine, Florida, and shorter than the tall Lakeuden Risti cross-shaped church tower in Seinäjoki, Finland.

Other works that St-Calais gave to the cathedral library were copies of Augustine of Hippo's De Civitae Dei and Confessions ; Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, Moralia, and Homilies ; and Ambrose's De Poenitentia.

Augustine wrote four letters specifically on Pelagianism, " De peccatorum meritis et remissione libri III " ( Three Books on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins ) in 412, " De spiritu et litera " ( On the Spirit and the Letter ) and " Definitiones Caelestii " ( Caelestius's Definitions ) in 414, and " De natura et gratia " ( On Nature and Grace ) in 415.

Augustine of Hippo wrote two books about lying: On Lying ( De Mendacio ) and Against Lying ( Contra Mendacio ).

De Civitate Dei, ( full title: De Civitate Dei contra Paganos ), translated in English as The City of God, is a book of Christian philosophy written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century AD.

St. Augustine touched on the topic in De Civitate Dei (" The City of God ").

This explanation is given among others by Augustine in his Civitate Dei, where he notes that the generating sentence has 27 letters, i. e. 3 x 3 x 3, which in that age indicated power.

Saint Augustine in City of God ( De Civitate Dei ) ( 14. 24 ) mentions some performers who did have " such command of their bowels, that they can break wind continuously at will, so as to produce the effect of singing.