Augustine
"I loved the happy life but I feared to find it in Your house and so I ran from it even as I sought after it. I thought that I would be miserable if I were kept from a woman's arms. I did not believe that a cure for this disease lay in Your mercy; I had no experience of such a cure. I believed that continence was within a man's own powers, though I was unaware of such a power within me. I was a fool and did not know - as it is written [in Scripture] - that no man can be continent unless You grant it to him. And this You surely would have given to me if, with inward groanings, I had knocked at your ears and with a firm faith had cast my many cares upon You."(from The Confessions, Book 6, Chapter 11, circa 397-400 A.D.) Augustine was born in A.D. 354 in the town of Thagaste in Algeria. His father was a pagan and his mother was a devout Christian. Augustine was educated as a rhetorician in the former North African cities of Tagaste, Madaura, and Carthage. Augustine died in A.D. 430 identifying himself as the supreme ：doctor of grace.； Augustine is, arguably, the greatest theologian-philosopher of all time. Some elements of Platonism can be seen in Augustine・s teaching. His view of the world is Platoni
. . .
Some common words found in the essay are:
According Augustine・s, Truth Wisdom, God Theists, Carthage Augustine, God God, , God Creator, Evil God, God Augustine, Adam Eve, god creator, ex nihilo, god god, god created, god・s creation, god creator source, world eternal, creation augustine, desire wisdom, quest wisdom, god・s creation augustine, truth quest,
Approximate Word count = 1622
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
|
 |
