According to Wikipedia: Aurelius Augustinus, Augustine of Hippo, or Saint Augustine (354 - 430) was a philosopher and theologian, and was bishop of the North African city of Hippo Regius for the last third of his life. Augustine is one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity, and is considered to be one of the church fathers. He framed the concepts of original sin and just war. ...Born in present day Algeria as the eldest son of Saint Monica, he was educate...

"I think I'm in love. Loathe. I'm in loathe with her."PANDORA'S SERPENT is the debut novel of Augustine Kent's urban dark romantasy series, The Kurosh Cycle.Janessa's nearly picture-perfect life turned upside down the day she crossed a chaos demon's path. When Janessa stepped unfraid into Varku's mayhem, he couldn't look away. It infuriated him, the way she put things back in order. But he also found himself intrigued, much to ...

Saint Augustine, “one of the four great fathers of the Latin Church,” was born in what is now Algeria (North Africa), November, 354 A. D. His mother was a devout Christian, but his father was unconverted at the time of Augustine’s birth. The piety of the mother finally won both father and son to the Christian faith.Augustine’s early life, especially his youth, was characterized by sinful lapses into the evils of temptation, temptation to which he often yielded, for which weakness he...

16 centuries ago, the greatest empire the world had ever seen, The Roman Empire, symbolically, with the sack of its capitol, the eternal city of Rome, died. It was the end of 1,000 years of civilization by the hands of barbarian hordes from Germania. Many Romans argued at the time that the Empire was crumbling because the ancient gods had been displaced by the now official-and dominant-Christian faith. The City of God is a rebuttal of this belief-but that is far from all ...

While trying to become all that we wish to be, we make the common mistake of neglecting the self that incubates, gives birth and nurses who we ultimately become in life. self-development is a reminder, a self-help mechanism that every human needs in order to grow bountifully. It takes a lot of resources to be fruitful. this insightful and transformative book is another resource you would not want to miss out from.

The Confessions of Saint Augustine is an autobiographical work that chronicles the spiritual journey of one of the most influential figures in the history of Christianity. Written in the early 5th century by Saint Augustine, a Bishop of Hippo in North Africa, this book is considered a classic of Christian literature and a cornerstone of Western philosophy. The book is divided into 13 books, each representing a different phase in Augustine's life and spiritual development. It is wr...

"The Confessions" is often considered one of Augustine's most famous and enduring works. It is written in the form of a prayerful autobiography and is a deeply introspective exploration of his life, his sins, his conversion to Christianity, and his reflections on the nature of God, human existence, and the human soul.Augustine chronicles his struggles with faith, his intellectual pursuits, and his experiences with worldly pleasures. He details his transformation from a life of moral ambigu...

**A collapsing empire. A crisis of truth. A book that changed the course of history.** When Rome fell, the world was thrown into chaos. Fear spread. Blame followed. Many claimed Christianity was responsible for the downfall of a civilization. One man stood against that narrative. In *The City of God*, Saint Augustine delivers a powerful and timeless answer—one that goes far beyond religion. This is not just a defense of faith. It is a profound exploration of human nature, power, destiny, a...

In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art. Augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive, his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high power at the imperial court of Milan, and his renunciation of secular ambition and marriage as he recovered the faith that his mother had taught him. It was in a Milan garden that Augustine ...

Augustine's writings influenced the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity, and he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church in the Patristic Period. His many important works include The City of God, On Christian Doctrine, and Confessions.His masterpieces has spawned innumerable other books and articles since. Later philosophers and theologians have been deeply influenced by The City of God, with its impact being felt from literatu...

The book series “Letters from Ghana” is a moral and intellectual guide to public discourse. This book - Issue No. 5 - comprises 29 peer-reviewed papers. It is the last issue for the volume 1 series which is a compilation of public discourse papers first published on the blog www.writersghana.com from July 2020 to September 2022. The blog, owned by Writers & Shakespeares Ghana Limited, is dedicated to independent scholarship and publication of peer reviewed papers only. The contents, just l...

In The Confessions of Saint Augustine (c. 400 CE), Saint Augustine reveals in brutally honest details the agonizing process of maturation from a worldly and sinful young man to the great advocate for Christianity and virtue he would become.Saint Augustine of Hippo is now remembered as one of the great Christian philosophers of history, with his many works contributing significantly to concepts like theological anthropology, eschatology, and origin...