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Saint Augustine (354-430)
  • Born in Tagaste, North Africa, son of a Roman
    citizen and a Christian woman, Monica.
  • Received a classical education in Carthage
  • 383 - Professor of rhetoric in Milan
  • Manichean
  • Converted to Christianity by Ambrose in Milan,
    baptized in 387
  • Abandoned concubine and son
  • 391 Designated as priest
  • 395 Bishop of Hippo.
  • Died in 430.
  • The City of God (431) http//www.ccel.org/fathers
    /NPNF1-02/
  • Confessions http//calvarychapel.com/library/augu
    stine/text/confessions.htm

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Organizer of the Chirstian Orthodoxy
  • Catholic (Universal)
  • Theory and practice of Dogma
  • Against Paganism
  • Against Heresy (concerned with deviation)
    Manicheans, Donatists
  • Love (love of self vs. love of God)
  • The heavenly city vs. the earthly city
  • Struggle between Good and Evil (Self)
  • Neoplatonic influence (justice peace order, in
    this case between man and God)
  • Challenge finding the right way of life for
    Christians

3
Kingdoms
  • Justice being taken away, then, what are
    kingdoms but great robberies? For what are
    robberies themselves, but little kingdoms? (186)

4
The Two Cities
  • Love of God
  • Glory of God
  • Charity
  • Princes and subjects serve one another in love
  • Holy wisdom
  • Eternal
  • Inhabited by God, angels, and those who live
    according to God
  • Love of self
  • Glory of men
  • Cupidity
  • Love of ruling
  • Human wisdom
  • Destined to perish
  • Inhabited by those who live according to man

5
Peace Order
  • The peace of all things is the tranquility of
    order. Order is the distribution which allots
    things equal and unequal, each to its own place.
    (690)
  • if there is no man who does not wish to be
    joyful, neither is there any one who does not
    wish to have peace.()And hence it is obvious
    that peace is the end sought for by war. (191)
    (687)

6
House, City, World
  • it follows plainly enough that domestic peace
    has a relation to civic peacein other words,
    that the well-ordered concord of domestic
    obedience and domestic rule has a relation to the
    well-ordered concord of civic obedience and civic
    rule. And therefore it follows, further, that the
    father of the family ought to frame his domestic
    rule in accordance with the law of the city, so
    that the household may be in harmony with the
    civic order. (197)

7
Evil disorder, vanity, mistakeevil does not
exist as a force of its own it is just the
absence of order, peace, and justice
8
Human Justice
  • The human judge
  • the result of this lamentable ignorance is that
    this very person, whom he tortured that he might
    not condemn if innocent, is condemned to death
    both tortured and innocent.()If such darkness
    shroud social life, will a wise judge take his
    seat on the bench or no? Beyond question he
    will. (190)

9
Slavery
  • the apostle admonishes slaves to be subject to
    their masters, and to serve them heartily and
    with good-will, so that, if they cannot be freed
    by their masters, they may themselves make their
    slavery in some sort free, by serving not in
    crafty fear, but in faithful love (196)
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