Category: Augustine

Why Does Augustine Believe You Can Only Get Happiness Through God? Our underlying problem, according to Augustine, has to do with affection. Our problem is misplaced tenderness. We love the unfit things, or we love the correct stuff in the unsuitable way. For specimen, we wrongly tenderness power, fame, wealth, presence, and many other stuff…

Confessions Of St. Augustine: Messages And Topics The Confessions of Saint Augustine’ is an autobiography that is divided into 13 books based on his journey into Catholicism. The first nine books are based on his life from birth up until he converted into Catholicism in 368 AD. The last four books are no longer about…

Suicide: St. Augustines And Calvinists Views In this paper I will discuss St. Augustines argument against suicide, a Calvinists view of suicide, as well as my own view of suicide, which is the Arminian view. Suicide, even if it is for saving our honour, is a sin because the Bible says, Thou shalt not murder,…