Augustine
Confessions church father
Augustine is a masculine given name of Latin origin, derived from Augustus, meaning venerable or majestic.
It is most famously associated with Saint Augustine of Hippo, the fourth-century theologian whose writings profoundly shaped Western Christianity and philosophy.
The name also appears in Augustine of Canterbury, who brought Christianity to England.
As a result, Augustine carries religious and scholarly connotations.
Augustine is a family name going back generations.
Phoenician colony that challenged Rome
- MilanLombardy's capital city
- MonicaFemale given name
- conversionAct of changing states
- gardenCultivated plant area
pear tree · Rome · rhetoric · youth · baptism · Africa · Ostia · death
Effortless beauty of motion
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- TrinityGodhead as three persons
- original sinInherited spiritual corruption
free will · Confessions · sacraments · ecclesiology · eschatology · providence · faith · doctrine
Plotinus's systematic mystical metaphysics
- PlatonismPhilosophy emphasizing ideal Forms
- skepticismDisposition toward doubt
- soulInnermost animating essence
- metaphysicsPhilosophy of existence's nature
epistemology · truth · wisdom · dialectic · Ciceronian · memory · time · evil
Authoritative early Christian theologians
- early ChristianityFaith's founding centuries
- Nicene CreedEarly church belief formula
- antiquityGreat age, ancient era
- canonAccepted authoritative works
heresy · orthodoxy · monasticism · dogma · creeds · patriarchs · ecumenical · Ambrose
Religious talks to congregations
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
- homiliesReligious instructional addresses
- ordinationClergy appointment ceremony
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
diocese · congregation · disputes · councils · ecclesiastical · polemics · North Africa · priesthood
Scholastic philosopher-theologian surname
- ScholasticismMedieval academic theology method
- universalsProperties holding across all
- LombardNorthern Italian regional native
- FranciscansCatholic mendicant religious order
Carthage
Phoenician colony that challenged Rome
- MilanLombardy's capital city
- MonicaFemale given name
- conversionAct of changing states
garden · pear tree · Rome · rhetoric · youth · baptism · Africa · Ostia · death
grace
Effortless beauty of motion
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- TrinityGodhead as three persons
original sin · free will · Confessions · sacraments · ecclesiology · eschatology · providence · faith · doctrine · exegesis
Neoplatonism
Plotinus's systematic mystical metaphysics
- PlatonismPhilosophy emphasizing ideal Forms
- skepticismDisposition toward doubt
- soulInnermost animating essence
metaphysics · epistemology · truth · wisdom · dialectic · Ciceronian · memory · time · evil · will
Church Fathers
Authoritative early Christian theologians
- early ChristianityFaith's founding centuries
- Nicene CreedEarly church belief formula
- antiquityGreat age, ancient era
canon · heresy · orthodoxy · monasticism · dogma · creeds · patriarchs · ecumenical · Ambrose · Jerome
sermons
Religious talks to congregations
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
- homiliesReligious instructional addresses
- ordinationClergy appointment ceremony
clergy · diocese · congregation · disputes · councils · ecclesiastical · polemics · North Africa · priesthood · episcopate
Aquinas
Scholastic philosopher-theologian surname
- ScholasticismMedieval academic theology method
- universalsProperties holding across all
- LombardNorthern Italian regional native
- church historychurch history, apostles, Protestant Reformation, Christian history, baptism
- Christian ApologistsC.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, Thomas Aquinas, Blaise Pascal, Athanasius
- Christian ScholarsAquinas, Thomas Aquinas, Jerome, Athanasius, church fathers
- Christian ThinkersThomas Aquinas, Aquinas, Bernard of Clairvaux, Athanasius, Pope John Paul II
- early churchapostles, early church, Church Fathers, apostolic fathers, Acts of the Apostles
- Latin authorsVirgil, Cicero, Ovid, Horace, Livy
AugustineAquinas
Scholastic philosopher-theologian surname
Thomas Aquinas · Aristotle · Aristotelianism · Scholasticism · empiricism
- St. AugustineHistoric Florida coastal city
- Augustine of Hippo
- Saint AugustineNorth African theologian-bishop
- st augustineOldest US city