¶Biography Augustinus (b. Souk Ahras 354 / d. August 28, 430 Bône)
¶Variants Augustinus Hipponensis episcopus, Aurelius; Augustinus Hipponensis; Augustinus Hipponensis, Aurelius; Augustinus; Augustinus, Aurelius
; St.-Augustinus; s. Augustijn
* The dominant personality of the Western Church of his time, is generally recognized as having been the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity. His mind was the crucible in which the religion of the New Testament was most completely fused with the Platon
ic tradition of Greek philosophy; and it was also the means by which the product of this fusion was transmitted to the Christendoms of medieval Roman Catholicism and Renaissance Protestantism.
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