When one refers to the history of human thought and especially within the changes and the people who revolutionized despite their ideas and left indelible legacies, one of them is undoubtedly the great thinker of Christianity who is attributed as Patristic or the greatest of the Fathers of the Church. For this and more, the figure known as Augustine of Hippo (also known as Saint Augustine) was a prominent Christian theologian and philosopher who lived in the Roman province of Africa during the 4th and 5th centuries AD. He was born on November 13, 354 AD in Tagaste, a small town in Numidia (now Algeria).
Augustine was raised by his mother, Saint Monica, who was a devout Christian. However, he initially rejected Christianity and followed a hedonistic lifestyle. Finally, he converted to Christianity in AD 386. C., after a long period of spiritual search and philosophical reflection. He later became a priest and bishop, and his teachings and writings had a significant impact on Christian theology and philosophy.
Some of Augustine's most famous works include "Confessions," which is an autobiographical account of his spiritual journey, and "The City of God," which is a treatise on the relationship between Christianity and the state. Augustine's ideas on original sin, divine grace, and predestination have had a profound influence on Christian theology, and his writings are still widely studied and discussed today.
It is not bad because this spiritual search and the reflection that was a very vital power in one of the most incredible thinkers and saints in our history of Salvation, where the Grace and strength of God is seen, which is possessed by mothers , a treasure of the feminine heart that is superior to mere philosophical reflection, because it is another type of approximation, an approximation and valuation of the very being of the human, which occurs in the terms of oriental theology and in the arts that allow us to carry to the expression of the elevation of the human spirit.
He later became a priest and bishop, and his teachings and writings had a significant impact on Christian theology and philosophy.
"The City of God", which is a treatise on the relationship between Christianity and the state, as stated above. Because Christians were accused of causing the destruction of the Roman Empire since that was the popular story that Nero spread by burning the city.
However, it is not just Augustine's ideas on original sin, divine grace, and predestination that have had a profound influence on Christian theology, and his writings are still widely studied and discussed today. But they are more than all that power of the Civitas Dei, where it demonstrates the legacy of the classical tradition is rescued and valued by Christianity without being a mere copy.
It is a voluminous but necessary work to see the value of thought and that the balance between faith and reason is the need of modernity that has thrown an enormous force to instrumental reason.