The Confessions St. Augustine (354-430 CE)
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The ConfessionsSt. Augustine (354-430
CE)
Prepared by:Dr. Kay Picart
Assistant Professor of English & Humanities
Biography/Historical Backdrop
Born in Thagaste Trained as a rhetorician product of a religiously mixed
marriage Monnica (Catholic) and Patricius
(agnostic) initially a hedonist
Augustine’s parents deliver him to the schoolmaster
Additional Sites
Augustine of Hippo
Augustine(Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Saint Augustine
Biography/Historical Backdrop
Lived with an unnamed woman, had a son, “Adeodatus” (“gift of Baal”)
attracted to Manicheism--founded by Mani (Babylonian; claimed to be the Holy Spirit; crucified as a heretic)
The Problem of Evil
How can one reconcile the presence of a Christian God who is:• Omnipotent (all powerful)• Omniscient (all knowing)• Omnibenevolent (all caring)• with Evil in the world?
The Problem of Evil
Perhaps He is not omnipotent even if he were omniscient and omnibenevolent
Mani’s dualism: the principles of light & darkness
asceticism: the barest necessities
Augustine’s Conversion
Foreshadowing:
Augustine’s primary sins:
Augustine’s Conversion
child’s voice:
Similarities: Plato & Augustine
The two wills
Guide Questions for Dante’s Inferno (Jan. 31, NOT Jan. 29):
Do you see any similarities/differences b/w Dante’s vision of hell and the movie, Seven?
Do you see any similarities between Dante and Augustine (hint: they are both confessions of sins in some senses)?
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