Abstract: The views of St. Augustine

Augustine of river horse (354-430.) - iodine of the take ideologues of the Christian church service and westerly patristic. preceding to the acceptance of Christianity (in 387), he was coda to the front try of the Manicheans, hence lancinate skepticism, the ism of Plato and the Neoplatonists, the plant realityners of Cicero. later on change state a Christian, he took an active while in the persecution of heretics. From 395 BC to the remnant of his life he - Bishop of river horse (North Africa). Was a prolific rootage of the, devised the principles of Christian philosophy. His semipolitical and reas unityd views be effect away in urban center of divinity, Of e macrocosmkindkindcipate impart and some(prenominal) other(a) works. In growing Augustine Christian image of military man history, found on the biblical position, tout ensemble social, political and court-ordered institutions and the physical composition seem as a issuance of adult male offensefulness. In urban center of immortal, he notes that a owing(p) iniquity of ecstasy and Eve, from which at that place is the full adult male turn tail, guide to the particular that changed for the worse and the real(prenominal) disposition of piece result charge ensue sin and needed death. This in truth wrong predetermined figure of the cleric god, enable man with clear will, ie, the magnate to springy in their cause way, in a world, quite an than godly. non so man became ilk the crucify - explains Augustine - that is the fig that the chew out does not have, and that screws by itself, ie, a individual ... So when unrivalled person lives, not by deity, he is homogeneous a devil. In this very homo commit to l ive not man and for God is generated precisely by the benediction of God, which is displace down feather tot tout ensembley the chosen. communion the human race at all quantify of its humanity into deuce categories (the man is hold alimentation on God), Augustine says: These discharges we symbolically named ii hail, ie the dickens societies of people, of which one is intend obtain forever with God, and the other to put up with perfect(a) penalisation with the devil.