Tag: Augustine
Biblical Nuggets: Pelagius, Pelagianism, and Augustine
Pelagius was an Irish monk. On his visit in Rome, he was so much scandalized when he saw people who identified themselves…
Read MoreSaturday Quote: Augustine’s Advice on Engaging with Science
"Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens... and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason…
Read MoreBiblical Nuggets: Augustine’s “Pear Incident” and the Understanding of Human Total Depravity
Augustine records this "pear incident" in his Confession to rationally and empirically demonstrate why human beings voluntarily sin. We love to sin; so we make conscious decision…
Read MoreBiblical Nuggets: The Enterprise of Faith Seeking Understaning
The enterprise of Faith Seeking Understanding is an attempt to better understand and articulate the truth found in the Scripture, not going…
Read MoreWilliam L. Craig Critique St. Augustine on the Creation of the Universe
"Why didn't God make the world sooner? In the early fifth century AD, Augustine of Hippo answered that God did not make…
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Augustine’s Philosophical Anthropology: Immortality of Human Soul in a Composite Soul-Body
In The City of God, Saint Augustine presents Varro as a representative of his dualistic anthropology, which consists of two substances. He…
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