St. Augustine Christian Traditions – Flashcards
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when was augustine born
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354 A.D.
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where was he born
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tagaste in roman north africa
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father? what religion was he?
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patricius, pagan who followed old gods of rome
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mother?
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St. Monica-devout christian
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when was augustine baptized?
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early 30s
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son of augustine?
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adeodatus
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where di he study
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carthage
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where did augustine become the student of bishop ambrose?
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milan
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why did augustine convert?
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he heard a voice tell him to open the bible. when he opened it, it went to roans 13:13, which told him to abandon his life of sex and drunkenness
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who baptized augustine and adeodatus?
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bishop ambrose
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where did augustine settle? what is this now?
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hippo regius (annaba, algeria)
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augustine accepted the first time the hippo people asked him to be their bishop TRUE OR FALSE
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false....he accceptd the second time they asked because his son had died and he needed a distraction
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when did he become a priest? bishop?
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391, 396
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why did the hippo people want augustine as their bishop?
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he was very educated
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which people were responsible for the crumbling of the roman empire?
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the germans....specifically the Vandals
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who invaded North Africa as Augustine was bishop of Hippo?
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the Vandals
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what year and in what situation did augustine die?
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in his bed reading the psalms as the vandals began to attack hippo in 430 A.D.
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where was augustine buried?
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in hippo's cathedral
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augustine was concerned with philosophy and the ____ of christianity itself
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construction
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how did augustine think it was possible to learn about god?
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through way of reason
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augustine believed human society could be ____ ___ and _____
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whole, harmonious, and in the image of god
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he influenced
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More, Campanella, Marx, and Leibniz
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augustine believed that evil exists because
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we have free will
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evils are directly and indirectly related to
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human actions
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"we cannot judge God's judgment" this idea of augustine's came from ____ and ______
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manichaeism and neoplatonism
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manichaiems
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started by Mani and taught that there is the perfect god and his world, and then satan and his world--and humans are trapped in the evil world-but take no respnosibilit for being evil, only satan is
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why did augustine leave manichaism?
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because he felt that not only satan was responsible for evil-humans are because of their free will
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neoplatonism
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human souls are perfect but are trapped within imperfect human bodies and wish to be freed so they can join the perfect world and god
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why did augustine disagree with neoplatonism?
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because we choose to accept evils of the physical world rather than trying to look for the good in the spiritual world
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what does augustine think it is impossible to understand? (2 things)
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the mind of god and why suffering exists
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the first autobiography in western literature
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the confessions by augustine
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what did a child's voice say to augustine in his milan garden?
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"tolle et lege"-take and read
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roman 13 13 is by
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paul
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after his experience inthegarden,
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augustine was baptized, decided to never marry, and live a spiritual life
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giving up sex was....""
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"bittersweet"
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The Confessions gives a view of...
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the self in relation to God
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what happened in 410 A.d.
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the vandals took over rome and ruined al the ideas of a perfect empire
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"the Eternal City"
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Rome
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why was rome called the eternal city?
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people thought it would never be broken
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what four elements are presented in the City of God by Aguustine?
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the church, the state, the city of heaven, and the city of the world
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the church
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represents goodness and leads humankind to god
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the state
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virtues of politics and the mind--which make a political community
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both the churcha nd the state seek
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to do good
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city of heaven
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for those who are destined for salvation
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city of the world
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for those who seek eternal damnation
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donatism
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those who had formerly betrayed the faith (including priests and bishops) were no longer true christians, and whoever wants to be a christian must remain holy and free from sin for their whole lives.
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chief opponent of donatism
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augustine
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pelagianism
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a man does not need god's grace to be saved. they can do it by themselves-by being "good." it denies the existence of original sin
