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Asked by: Cleofas Hopfen
religion and spirituality christianityWhat did Augustine believe about God?
Similarly one may ask, what is Augustine's theory?
Augustine held that all creation partakes of truth in varying degrees, that man as the highest part of creation, created in God's image and thus sharing to some degree the divine nature, is able to know truth through the divine light and the light of his own mind.
Likewise, what was Augustine's role in Christianity?
Augustine) lived in the Roman Empire from 354 to 430 A.D. In 386 he converted to Christianity from the pagan Machanean religion. He was a teacher of rhetoric and became the Bishop of the city of Hippo. His Confessions, The City of God, and Enchiridion are among the most influential works of Western thought.
At the time of his conversion, however, Augustine became an ontological dualist claiming that some entities are non-corporeal. Thus, for Augustine, animals also have souls. The focus of his interest, however, was the human soul.