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Augustine (Overview of his Life)
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Augustine (Overview of his Life).
[I] OVERVIEW OF AUGUSTINE'S LIFE (354~430)
(1) In 354 Augustine was born in Tagaste, a small Numidian town in North Africa.
1) His father, Patricius, was a pagan and a lesser official; Monica, his mother, was a Christian.
2) He acquired a classical education in his native city and later in Madaura and Carthage.
3) As a young man he led the licentious life of a pagan.
(2) In 372 an illegitimate son, Adeodatus, was born to him.
(3) In 373, when he was nineteen, Cicero's Hortensius inspired him with a passion for philosophy.
(4) In 373, He became a Manichaean, but
(5) in 382 perceived the untruth of Manichaean thinking.
(6) In 382, He taught rhetoric with considerable success in Carthage, Rome, and Milan (385).
(7) In 385, Under the influence of the great Roman Christian Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, he became a catechumen in 395.
(8) In 386 he gave up his post as a teacher of rhetoric, and went with his mother and son to live in the country home of a friend at Cassiciacum, near Milan, where he devoted himself to philosophy.
(9) In 387 he was baptized by Ambrose. Shortly before his return to Africa, his mother died at Ostia.
(10) In 388 he went to Africa, where he spent the rest of his life.
(11) In 391, at Hippo, he was consecrated priest "against his will" by Bishop Valerius, and
(12) In 395 he became Bishop of Hippo. From this insignificant diocese he exerted a world-wide influence.
(13) As a boy, Augustine had experienced the anti-Christian reaction under Emperor Julian the Apostate and the restoration of Christianity by Theodosius, who had abolished the pagan cults.
(14) He was in his prime when Alaric sacked Rome.
Augustine died during the siege of Hippo by Genseric's Vandals in the year 430.
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Introduction
Theology 