ST AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
PAN AFRICA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
FACULTY: BIBLE & THEOLOGY
COURSE CODE: CMN2113
COURSE ASSIGNIMENT: CHURCH HISTORY I- A STUDY ON THE LIFE AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
STUDENT NAME: REUBEN CHAKA,
SUBMITTED TO: Dr. NGUCHIE GATHOGO
DATE: 5th November, 2013
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO- BISHOP AND THEOLOGIAN
Saint Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus) was one of the greatest theologians of Western Christianity and indeed one of the greatest Church Fathers. In his day the Mediterranean world consisted of an Eastern, Greek-speaking half and a Western, Latin-speaking half, with different ways of looking at things. His theology influenced both Catholicism and Protestantism.
He was born on 13 November 354 in North Africa, about 45 miles south of the Mediterranean, in the town of Tagaste (modern Souk-Ahras) in Numidia, in what is now Algeria, but near ancient Carthage (modern Tunis). Augustine was the Son of Patricius, a man of hot temper, His mother, Monnica, was a Christian, and his father for many years a pagan (although he became a Christian before his death). His mother undertook to bring him up as a Christian, and on one level he always found something attractive about Christ, but in the short run he was more interested in the attractions of sex, fame, and pride in his own cleverness. After a moderate amount of running around as a teen-ager, he took a mistress, who bore him a son when he was about eighteen. Theirs was a long-term relationship, apparently with faithfulness on both sides, although he did not marry the girl. He never tells us this (and in fact never tells us her name), so that we can only guess. It seems likely that she was a freedwoman, and that the laws forbade marriage between a free-born Roman citizen and a slave, or an ex-slave.
When he was 19 and a student at Carthage, he read a treatise by Cicero that opened his eyes to the delights of philosophy.
He was from the beginning a brilliant student, with
FACULTY: BIBLE & THEOLOGY
COURSE CODE: CMN2113
COURSE ASSIGNIMENT: CHURCH HISTORY I- A STUDY ON THE LIFE AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
STUDENT NAME: REUBEN CHAKA,
SUBMITTED TO: Dr. NGUCHIE GATHOGO
DATE: 5th November, 2013
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO- BISHOP AND THEOLOGIAN
Saint Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus) was one of the greatest theologians of Western Christianity and indeed one of the greatest Church Fathers. In his day the Mediterranean world consisted of an Eastern, Greek-speaking half and a Western, Latin-speaking half, with different ways of looking at things. His theology influenced both Catholicism and Protestantism.
He was born on 13 November 354 in North Africa, about 45 miles south of the Mediterranean, in the town of Tagaste (modern Souk-Ahras) in Numidia, in what is now Algeria, but near ancient Carthage (modern Tunis). Augustine was the Son of Patricius, a man of hot temper, His mother, Monnica, was a Christian, and his father for many years a pagan (although he became a Christian before his death). His mother undertook to bring him up as a Christian, and on one level he always found something attractive about Christ, but in the short run he was more interested in the attractions of sex, fame, and pride in his own cleverness. After a moderate amount of running around as a teen-ager, he took a mistress, who bore him a son when he was about eighteen. Theirs was a long-term relationship, apparently with faithfulness on both sides, although he did not marry the girl. He never tells us this (and in fact never tells us her name), so that we can only guess. It seems likely that she was a freedwoman, and that the laws forbade marriage between a free-born Roman citizen and a slave, or an ex-slave.
When he was 19 and a student at Carthage, he read a treatise by Cicero that opened his eyes to the delights of philosophy.
He was from the beginning a brilliant student, with
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