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„A Critical Student of Augustine” – Reinhold Niebuhr’s Interpretation of Augustine
… objection is valid even in the case of (Saint) Augustine (354-430), who – based on the relevant literature, Niebuhr’s intellectual autobiography, and his wife’s, Ursula’s Niebuhr statements – has had a significant influence on his thought. In a private letter, Niebuhr called himself a “critical …
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Saint Augustine, The Teacher
In a progressive world such as ours Is, every successful endeavor is carried on in the light of some guiding theory or philosophy. Each organization is found to have an outline of its purposes and to set its goals. It has a decided sphere of action and determines the methods and processes that are …
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Blinking Icons: Letters to Saint Augustine
<p>Blinking Icons:Letters to Saint Augustine is a hybrid contemporary epistolary historical novel in conversation with Saint Augustine’s Confessions. Sarah Ruden’s translation inspires an exploration of interiority, states of consciousness, memory, voice, and more broadly, the parallel …
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Augustine and Feminisms: A Dialogue About Education
<p>This dissertation explores the intersection of Augustine's philosophy of education and contemporary feminisms. While these two camps have traditionally been viewed as antagonistic to one another, I suggest that a fruitful exchange between them is possible. More specifically, I argue that …
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Augustine of Hippo: On Justification by Faith
<p>This study aims to retrieve Augustine of Hippo’s view of ‘justification by faith’ from his theological writings from the 390s to the end of his career. Significant sources are his early, unfinished commentaries on Paul’s letters to the Romans and his completed commentary on Galatians. In these, …
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St. Augustine on the structure and meaning of history
… the same problem with ultimate meaning remains. Augustine, on the other hand, argues that linearity, a sequence of unique moments, and finality characterize the structure of history. For Augustine a certain structure is a necessary prerequisite for ultimate historical meaning. To complete the …
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Stormwater Irrigation Of Saint Augustine Grass: Nitrogen Balance And Evapotranspiration
… filled with compacted soil and covered with St. Augustine grass to simulate a suburban lawn. The grass was irrigated up to twice a week with detained stormwater with a nitrate nitrogen concentration of up to 2 mg/L. A mass balance and a total nitrogen balance were performed to determine …
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St. Augustine and the Rhetoric of <em>De ordine</em>
… contributes to scholarship on the question of Augustine and rhetoric by considering Augustine’s use and understanding of rhetoric in <em>De ordine</em>, one of his early philosophical dialogues composed during his transition from a life in rhetoric to a life in philosophy. The author studies …
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The idea of creation in Plato, Augustine, and Emil Brunner
… is to examine the views of creation that Plato, Augustine, and Brunner advance to deal with problems involved in God's relation to the world. Divine craftsmanship seems to be the model in Plato's view of creation. His view of Pattern, Demiurgos, and Receptacle are advanced in order to deal with …
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Sacral Citizenship: Philosophies of the City from Plato to Augustine
… in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero and Augustine in their historical contexts. Aristotle is considered as a critic of Plato and Augustine of Cicero, with Cicero considered as poised between Plato and the Stoic legacy. The aim of this examination is to test certain still dominant …
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Dante, Augustine, and the Body of Christ in the Commedia
… most concertedly and profoundly to engage with Augustine. Dante’s predominant interest, as I hope to show, lies in Augustine’s theology of love, and takes the form in the present argument of a tripartite meditation on the reality of love as irreducible, as effusive, and as incorporative, …
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Is Everybody Doing It? Marital Celibacy in the Cappadocians and Augustine
… Gregory of Nyssa, Basil of Caesarea, and Augustine of Hippo-- through a careful analysis of various sources, from funeral orations to hagiographies, to sermons to dogmatic treatises, to letters and to monastic rules. It questions whether the practice was widely embraced in both the eastern …
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Persons, Houses, and Material Possessions: Second Spanish Period St. Augustine Society
<p>St. Augustine in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was a prosperous, multi-ethnic community that boasted trade connections throughout the Atlantic world. Shipping records demonstrate that St. Augustine had access to a wide variety of goods, giving residents choices in what they …
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De Opere Monachorum and the Influence of Saint Augustine on Monasticism
… only the importance and high esteem which St. Augustine held in monastic life, but also his influence on this form of life through his treatise De Opere Monachorum and his other writings. |It is not my intention to prove that St. Augustine directly influenced the monastic life of his times by …
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Evaluating the Operational Performance of St. Augustine U-turn Interchange (SUTI)
… of a novel median U-turn interchange—St. Augustine U-turn interchange (SUTI)—as an alternative to a conventional median U-turn on arterial interchange (MUTAI) and four other existing service interchanges. The research integrates two analytical stages: Critical Lane Volume (CLV) analysis …
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RELEVANCE, SELF-DETERMINATION, AND UNIVERSALITY THROUGH ST. AUGUSTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH'S GOSPEL CHOIR
… Church” through their particularity. St. Augustine Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. formed a gospel choir in light of this newfound freedom. Based on about one year of participant observation, this thesis analyzes the Gospel Choir’s role in making the Mass more relevant and interactive …
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The conversion and therapy of desire in Augustine's Cassiciacum dialogues.
… desire towards an immaterial world. Although Augustine agrees with the neo-Platonists on the need to redirect our desires to an immaterial world, he does not adopt their therapy for desire. Instead he adopts a thoroughly Christian approach to the healing of desire. The conversion of desire …
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