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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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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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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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The Influence of Saint Augustine Upon Pope Saint Gregory the Great in his Regula Pastoralis
… For a few years after his conversion St. Augustine was permitted to live in seclusion in close union with God. In the lives of these two Pastors of souls, we find that, although each desired to remain in a monastery, circumstance« necessitated their return to active life.
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Eloquent Wisdom: The Role of Rhetoric and Delight in the Theology of Saint Augustine of Hippo
This study examines Augustine’s conception of the role of delight (delectatio) in the divine acts of creation and redemption. In the first part of the dissertation, I argue that Augustine, who was trained as a rhetor and taught rhetoric before his conversion, came to conceive of theology as the …
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Labyrinthum capellae. Le "Annotationes in Marcianum" di Giovanni Scoto Eriugena e la fortuna del neoplatonismo cristiano
… relevant figures, for the western Europe, such Saint Augustine (De doctrina christiana), Martianus Capella (De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii) and Iohannes Scotus Eriugena (Annotationes in Marcianum). Clearly it emerges that there were two opposite ways about this relatioship. According to the …
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Michael Tippett's Philosophy of Musical and Eschatological Time and Its Implications for Christian Theology
… analysis of Tippett’s oratorio, The Vision of Saint Augustine, supports a biblical theology of time and its relation to God in the eschaton. Tippet’s work is especially significant in light of modern theologians’ work in the theology of time, specifically William Craig, Karl Barth, Oscar …
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Saint Augustine's Critical Judgment of the Pagan Writers
The following is an attempt to study Saint Augustine’s attitude toward the Greek and Latin pagan writers. An effort has been made to record all of the direct quotations of the pagan authors used by Saint Augustine in the twenty-two books of his Be Civitate Dei. |I have undertaken to emphasize the …
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The Influence of Plato Upon St. Augustine Especially in the De Civitate Dei
Saint Augustine stands foremost among the world’s great philosophers. It is in his writings that Patristic philosophy attained the zenith of its course. He synthesized the best elements of pagan philosophy into his system of Christian thought with such sublimity of logic and language that he is …
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The loss of neighborhood secondary schools: how the distance a student lives from their school can affect their academic achievement
… New Jersey, Our Lady of Mercy Academy and Saint Augustine College Prepatory School. Both schools are grades ninth through twelfth. Both schools are Catholic schools but you do not have to be Catholic to attend. Both schools operate off of a 4.0 grade point average scale. The data collected …
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The Gospel According to Carey: Christian Hermeneutics in Bliss and Oscar and Lucinda
… in the ideas and texts of David Lyle Jeffrey, Saint Augustine, Saint Jerome and others. In short, I argue that the bottom line in a Christian reading of a novel should be how ably the novel in question appropriates Scripture as a means to pointing back to Christ, to the Incarnation—-or, even …
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The Gospel According to Carey: Christian Hermeneutics in Bliss and Oscar and Lucinda
… in the ideas and texts of David Lyle Jeffrey, Saint Augustine, Saint Jerome and others. In short, I argue that the bottom line in a Christian reading of a novel should be how ably the novel in question appropriates Scripture as a means to pointing back to Christ, to the Incarnation—-or, even …
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The Representation of Salvation in The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
… much of its emphasis on Western Christendom. Saint Augustine and Aquinas remain the exemplars of Christian thought, and the reformation the pinnacle of the church’s impact on the course of history. This thesis contributes to a growing body of schokirship which probes Eastern foundations of …
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„A Critical Student of Augustine” – Reinhold Niebuhr’s Interpretation of Augustine
… This 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 …
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The African Christian History of American Songs of Slavery
… in and through God’s people to set things right. Saint Augustine (354-430 AD) was an African Christian theologian and philosopher whose spiritual authority heavily influenced the development of Western Christianity. Augustine’s writings helped bring together both the Hebrew and Greek parts of the …
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Irony in De Civitate Dei
… of the argument increases; and in this, Saint Augustine is shown truly representative of the sophistic training of his time. |In the three hooks of the City of God read for this thesis, one hundred eighty-three examples have been noted. These are classified under the following rhetorical …
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Conversion as transformative experience: a sociological study of identity formation and transformation processes
… of this study. The transformative experiences of Saint Augustine, the fourteenth century nun Margaret Ebner, the communist revolutionary Karl Marx and the literary figure of Arthur Koestler will provide the material onto which the theoretical framework can be applied. A synthesis of the Judaic …
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The “Breach” that Leads to God: On the Interrelation Between Love and Justice as Revelatory Enactment in the Work of Emmanuel Levinas
… theology with similar prominence in the work of Saint Augustine. In order to provide a basic framework, therefore, through which both the opportunities and difficulties in approaching revelation through the relation of love and justice can be examined, the thesis begins with a succinct analysis …
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