[1] Any new book on Augustine is a monument to authorial courage. No single author in Western religious literature has received more attention that Augustine. The secondary literature alone is so massive one could spend a life's work mastering it. Hundreds of monographs dealing with patristic themes crowd the shelves of the world's libraries. Nevertheless, despite the challenge, Sandra Dixon ha...

augustine, in addition to some theories regarding theology, has theories on language and meaning that have inspired contemporary philosophers of language in their philosophical research. based on augustine, when a listener hears a sentence, he is not to understand the sensible language, but he follows something that the ear cannot hear. augustine was one of the philosophers found favor with wit...

St. Augustine [5] began his life in Algeria, an apt student devoted early to the Church and seeking the Truth. His professors recognized his great skill at philosophizing and writing. As Augustine devoured writings both ancient and of his contemporaries, he fell away from the Church and toward a religious dualism sect known as the Manicheans. His mother, a very devoted Christian (later St. Moni...

Note: Contribution to ‘Augustine and Manichaean Christianity’, the First South African Symposium on Augustine of Hippo, University of Pretoria, 24−26 April 2012. Dr Jacob van den Berg is participating as research fellow of Prof. Dr Hans van Oort, Professor Extraordinarius in the Department of Church History and Polity of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Afr...

The Venetian paiTitcr Vittore Carpaccio picttired Saint Atigustine seated at a table in a roomy study, pausing, his pen raised from the paper. Augustine is writing a letter to Saint Jerome asking the older man for advice and at that vcr> moment, in distant Bethlehem, Jerome dies, .\ugiistine looks up from his desk, as his room fills with light and an ineffable fragrance, and he hears the voice ...

Deformation of pyroclastic flow deposits begins almost immediately after emplacement, and continues thereafter for months or years. This study analyzes the extent, volume, thickness, and variability in pyroclastic flow deposits (PFDs) on Augustine Volcano from measuring their deformation rates with interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR). To conduct this analysis, we obtained 48 SAR im...

Jun Zhang, Sonia L. Planey, Carolina Ceballos, Stanley M. Stevens Jr. Susan K. Keay, and David A. Zacharias 1 The Whitney Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine, Florida 32080 2. Proteomics Core Facility, ICBR, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32610 3. University of Maryland, VA Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 21201 Running Title: Palmitoyl Acyl T...

Because of the immensity of Augustine’s corpus and the complex intellectual patrimony that informs it, attempts to place him within the history of philosophical traditions are often partial and in need of supplementation. In treating below of Augustine’s engagement with Aristotelianism, Middle Platonism, Neoplatonism, and Stoicism, I shall be drawing attention to particular topics, lexical poin...