5/13/2023 0 Comments City of God by Augustine of HippoHIS LIFE.-Augustine’s life is unfolded to us in documents of unrivalled richness, and of no great character of ancient times have we information comparable to that contained in the “Confessions”, which relate the touching story of his soul, the “Retractations”, which give the history of his mind, and the “ Life of Augustine”, written by his friend Possidius, telling of the saint’s apostolate. His Function as a Doctor of the Church IV. August 28, 430 -”a philosophical and theological genius of the first order, dominating, like a pyramid, antiquity and the succeeding ages … Compared with the great philosophers of past centuries and modern times, he is the equal of them all among theologians he is undeniably the first, and such has been his influence that none of the Fathers, Scholastics, or Reformers has surpassed it”.-The extraordinary part played by the great Bishop of Hippo, and thus eulogized by Philip Schaff in his “History of the Christian Church“, accounts for the length of this article treating I. Augustine of Hippo, Saint, Doctor of the Church, b.
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