The Life and Legacy of St. Augustine of Hippo

Introduction

Saint Augustine is one of the most important early Christian writers, yet serious general readers read him less frequently than his influence justifies. In his own lifetime, Augustine almost single-handedly codified the standards for the priesthood and consecration of bishops. His aggressive attacks against Donatism thwarted a serious challenge to the rights of the Catholic hierarchy to ordain. The early Christian Church included Augustine among its Fathers; a distinction reserved for those whose writings it considered essential in the formulation of Christian doctrine (Augustine, 85).

His Life

Saint Augustine (November 13 354 - Aug 28 430) is one of the most influential figures in Western Christianity. He considers the Catholic and Anglican churches saint and prominent Fathers of the Church and patron saint of the monastic Alougustini behavior. It was considered by many Protestants, especially on theological sources of the teachings of the Protestant Reformation on the grace and salvation. And considers some of the Orthodox churches such as the Coptic Orthodox Church are considered by some as a saint Hrtkie because of his opinions on the issue of emanations. Born in North Africa before the coming of Islam, the son of St. Monica was educated in Rome and was baptized in Milan. His works - including the confessions, which are the first autobiography in the West - is still unread in various parts of the world(Augustine, 117).

St. Augustine's assets stemmed from a Berber born in Tagast (Thagast) (currently market Ahras) in 354 before the advent of Islam. That was a city located in one of the provinces of the Kingdom of Rome in North Africa. When he was eleven years old his family sent him to Mdaorc, Nomidep city located 30 km south of Tagast. At the age of seventeen he went to Carthage to complete the study of the statement.

His mother Monica Amazigh and a Christian mother and his father were a pagan. Since, its inception, Christianity, but that Augustine left the Church to follow the religion Manichaeism Khazla mother. In his youth he lived the life of Augustine in Carthage Mtaip had a relationship with a woman will be his concubine for 15 years. During this period, his concubine and bore him a son, bore the name Odieudadtos Adeodatus was educated in philosophy and objective statement, the science of persuasion and rhetoric. After working in teaching in Carthage Tagast and moved in 383 to Rome because he thought it the home of the finest scholars of the statement. However, he soon disappointed the schools of Rome and when it's time to his disciples to pay for these fees by evading it. After his friends Manichaeans submitting to the Governor of Rome, who was looking for a professor of pathology at the University of Milan, the statement, he was appointed a professor there and took office in late 384(Brown, 224).

Discussion and Analysis

In the middle Ages, Augustine's Confessions (397-400; Confessions, 1620) became not only the literary model for conversion but for conversion literature, ...