Rick Rubio Art Humanities Professor John 2 October 2013 Cathedral of Saint John the Divine The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine is simply breathtaking. From the exterior to the interior of the cathedral‚ you can find plentiful amounts of highly sophisticated bodies of work. Before laying a foot inside‚ the massive bronze doors containing forty-eight relief panels depicting scenes from the Old and New Testament catches the eyes of many. Also‚ many note the exquisite statues and carvings of
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of the Divine Order. A mystery to the erudite but revealed through grace to what the Lord Jesus Christ called ‘little children’ (Matthew 11:25). There is a Father‚ a Son‚ and a Holy Ghost‚ that comprises what we know as the Triune God who rules over all creations. He causes the sun to rise and the rain to fall on both the righteous (good) and the unrighteous (evil) who are all the children of the Father in heaven (Matthew 5:45). The Holy
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St. Augustine the Roman Philosopher St. Augustine was man of many substances‚ he was scholarly man‚ and he was a person that fought with his temptation as a child growing up. Augustine could have become a lawyer but he chose to follow his faith and become a priest. He is a man of his teaching and he makes you believe or question his teaching but you still come away that he knows what he is talking about. Before he became a Saint‚ Augustine was born in a small city in Northern Africa in the town
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St. Augustine Philosophy offers so many possible topics of interest that I would love to write about. For this particular instance I chose to investigate just a sliver of writing from St. Augustine. Augustine wrote numerous books‚ letters‚ and sermons about God and religion that are still well known today. One small portion of a particular writing that stood out to me was when he discussed evil in the face of God. First‚ I will summarize his literature‚ and then state my argument against his
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St. Augustine uses his focus on the fact that God may exists in the same extent which wisdom and truth exists‚ which is as concepts or ideas in the mind but not reality. He shows that there is evidence of God but not a powerful creator. To Augustine‚ God exists but requires him to exist for the basis of his argument. St. Augustine focuses on memory as an unconscious knowledge‚ which eventually leads him to his knowledge of God. Augustine is no longer telling events of the past‚ but only of present
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St. Augustine and Evil As a Christian Theologian and Philosopher in the first century following the famous council of Nicea‚ Saint Augustine was faced with many problems in faith and God‚ but these things would shape a theology most influential to Christianity today. While the Council of Nicea focused primarily on the person and being of Christ Jesus‚ Augustine was much more interested in the One and all being‚ God. Specifically he was concerned with the problem of evil. The problem of evil is
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In the book Confessions‚ “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us”‚ Saint Augustine once said those words (Confessions Quotes). He is also known as Saint Augustine of Hippo and his original Latin name is Aurēlius Augustinus. He was born on November 13‚ 354 CE in Tagaste‚ Numidia. It is now Souk Ahras‚ Algeria. It is a “modest Roman community in a river valley” about 40 miles from the African coast. However‚ he died on August 28‚ 430 CE‚ in Hippo Regius which is now known as Annaba‚ Algeria
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In The Confessions of St. Augustine‚ a young boy whose civil servant parents of low status find enough money to send their son to be educated in classical Roman culture as a means to rise in society. The boy gives into the pressures of his friends and his own curiosity in adolescence‚ only to convert to a moral lifestyle as a grown man. St. Augustine’s conversion from Roman pleasure-seeking to the ethical truth-seeking ways of Christianity was quite a transformation. Augustine’s mother‚ among
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Thagaste‚ St. Augustine was born to a Christian mother and a pagan father. Augustine was always interested in learning and knowledge‚ and it was this desire to learn that led to him becoming a teacher and eventually teaching in Carthage‚ Rome and Milan.1 However it was not just secular knowledge Augustine was seeking‚ rather Augustine was also searching for the right to faith to believe in‚ and though he started off as a believer in Manichee theosophy‚ he eventually converted to Christianity. St. Augustine’s
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Omnipotence and St. Thomas Aquinas Omnipotence literally means the ability to do all things‚ or to have absolute power. This quality seems to be generally accepted as an intrinsic characteristic of the Judaeo-Christian god‚ as it says in Luke I. 37‚ "...there is nothing that God cannot do.". Certain objections can be raised to attributing this characteristic to god however‚ in-so-far as this characteristic seems to conflict with other accepted attributes of god. In The Summa Theologica St. Thomas
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