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    Study of Pelagianism

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    Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 3 I. ORIGIN OF PELAGIANISM 4 A. BRIEF BACKGROUND OF AUGUSTINE (354-430) 4 B. PELAGIUS 5 II. PELAGIAN CONTROVERSY 5 A. DOCTRINES OF PELAGIANISM 6 B. AUGUSTINE’S RESPONSE 8 III. RESULT 10 CONCLUSION 10 BIBLIOGRAPHY 12 INTRODUCTION Tracing the history of Christianity‚ there have been immense intellectual wars engaged for the sake of truth. Clearly‚ Christianity was a small religion with little importance in second and third

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    St. Augustine's Confessions

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    LIBERTY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY A CRITICAL REVIEW OF ST. AUGUSTINE’S CONFESSIONS BY ST. AUGUSTINE SUBMITTED TO DR. GREGORY TOMLIN IN PARTIAL FULLFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR CHHI520 DEPARTMENT OF CHURCH HISTORY BY SHARRON WATKINS COLUMBIA‚ SOUTH CAROLINA 11 AUGUST 2012 TABLE of CONTENTS Introduction------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Summary --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 The

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    Saint Augustine ------------------------------------------------- Life Early childhood Augustine was born in 354 in the municipium of Thagaste (now Souk Ahras‚ Algeria) in Roman Africa. His father‚ Patricius‚ was a pagan‚ and his mother‚ Monica‚ was Christian. Scholars believe that Augustine’s ancestors included Berbers‚ Latins and Phoenicians. Augustine’s family name‚ Aurelius‚ suggests that his father’s ancestors werefreedmen of the gens Aurelia given full Roman citizenship by the Edict of

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    of evil and suffering alongside the existence of the God of Classical Theism‚ a God who is omnipotent‚ omnibenevolent‚ and omniscient. Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE) tries to justify the righteousness of God; Augustine’s theodicy heavily refers and relates to key biblical passages. Therefore his theodicy is an attempt to solve the problem of suffering. Augustine uses the story of the Fall in Genesis 1:27 to argue that God intended for the world to be a perfect place but due to Adam and Eve committing

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    Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus is analyzed in three important aspects. The relationship and connection between Faustus players and the audience‚ and the juxtaposition of Marlowe’s Faustus and an ancient legend and the historical place card that is held by Marlowe’s play are key components in the analysis of the old script. Between the years of 1594 and 1595‚ Faustus is listed twelve times in Henslowe’s reporatory records showing

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    by Augustine that outlines his sinful youth and conversion to Christianity. Augustine wrote it between 397 and 401 while serving as the bishop of Hippo Regius. In his book‚ Augustine gives an account of his own life from birth up to that point. He then wrote about other matters such as the creation of the world‚ memory and time. A big segment of the book is spent on Augustine’s confession of sins that he had struggled with and how he had pled to God for deliverance from those sins. Augustine writes

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    of God is not identical with the Church‚ since not all members of the Church will be saved. During this age‚ before the Day of Judgment‚ the members of the two cities are mixed in together‚ no one knows with certainty who are the elect. Although‚ Augustine sometimes seems to identify Rome as the earthly city‚ at least in later sections of the book the earthly city is not identified with any particular state. Members of both the city of God and the earthly city will be among the citizens of any particular

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    Augustine of Hippo‚ who lived from 354-430 A.D.‚ was both a nonconformist and saint—one following the other. Growing up in the late Roman Empire‚ Augustine wrestled with evil in both its intellectual and experiential He sinned throughout his life and made it his mission to find the source for the problem of evil. Augustine was able to support the core of his argument by analyzing Genesis 3‚ which holds the Fall of Man. By understanding the power of evil in his own life‚ and the power of evil in

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    1.) Structurally‚ Dante’s divisions of the 3 stories Hell‚ Purgatory‚ and Heaven‚ each with 9 (32) places (Heaven: 7 planets+2‚ Hell 9 levels‚ Purgatory: 7 sins +2)‚ the 3 lined stanzas‚ 33 cantos‚ relate to Chartres Cathedral’s use of 3s in the architecture. Thematically‚ Dante’s stories are about the unification of faith and reason with the characters Virgil and Beatrice‚ is the same as Chartres Cathedral’s sculpture and art on the stain glass. Both works show our relationship to God and educates

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    acknowledged faith it is today. Saint Augustine of Hippo‚ a powerful figure in the faith‚ was a church father. Known as Saint Austin‚ or Blessed Augustine‚ He was an acclaimed Christian theologian and philosopher‚ whose works influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western Philosophy. Upon Augustine reading Cicero’s Hortensius‚ it introduced him to philosophical questions that he would ponder all through his life. Augustine became the bishop of Hippo Regius (modern-day Annaba‚ Algeria)

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