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- From: vancleef@netcom.com (Henry van Cleef)
- Subject: Re: St. Augustine
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.020938.28237@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom--posted from Andover, Mass.
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:09:38 GMT
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- >> In article <nestabro.727973425@nova> nestabro@nova.gmi.edu (Noel Estabrook) writes:
- >>>Anybody out there know the exact dates for St. Augustine? E-mail
- >>
- Since no one has seemed to get a "round tuit" I pulled out the 11th
- Britannica vol.2, and on pp.907-910 find the following:
- (Aurelius?) Augistinus, born Tagaste (North Africa) 13 Nov. 354; died
- Hippo (North Africa) 28 Aug. 430. That is very little to cull out of
- the three pages devoted to him, and if you can find an 11th Britannica,
- it is a good presentation of who he was and the path of his life.
-
- Augustine the man is one of those giants who left a profound mark on
- history for centuries. As a young man, he was both a scholar and a
- hell-raiser; after studying in Carthage, he went to Milan, complete with
- a "significant other" in modern terms---unmarried, by whom he had a son
- with the improbably name of "Adeodatus" (given by god). He followed the
- paths of the Gnostics and Manicheans for a period, but after becoming
- dissatisfied with them----and with a dose of Ambrose and John
- Chrysostom, was appointed Bishop of Hippo and joined the Christian
- Church. His significant other vanishes at this point, and his son died;
- and there is also a dramatic scene of reconciliation with his mother.
-
- Augustinian philosophy became the foundation of Western Christian
- thought lasting at least until the crises following translation of
- Aristotle into Latin and wide discussion of Aristotelian philosophy in
- the 13th century.
-
- Principal works, all readily available in English translation, include
- "Confessions" (i.e., his confession of Christian faith).
- "The City of God"---originally an answer to those who felt that
- Christianity was responsible for the decline of Rome and allowed the
- sack of Rome in 412.
- --
- Hank van Cleef vancleef@netcom.com vancleef@tmn.com Andover, Mass.
- Unix systems consultant---kernel, device drivers, networking, X11
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- The Union Institute History of Science
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