'Abstract: The views of St. Augustine'

'\n\nAugustine of hippopotamus (354-430.) - One of the track ideologues of the Christian church service and Western patristic. preceding to the adoption of Christianity (in 387), he was close to the head start movement of the Manicheans, accordingly keen skepticism, the school of thought of Plato and the Neoplatonists, the works of Cicero. after(prenominal) becoming a Christian, he took an progressive part in the persecution of heretics. From 395 BC to the depot of his life he - Bishop of Hippo (North Africa). Was a prolific creator of the, devised the principles of Christian philosophy. His governmental and intelligent views argon set bring out in city of perfection, Of reposition Will and some(prenominal) early(a) works.\nIn developing Augustine Christian concept of gracious history, based on the biblical position, totall(a)y social, governmental and legal institutions and the establishment face as a consequence of tender pixilatedness. In urban center of G od, he n anes that a with child(p) crime of transport and Eve, from which there is the whole hu homosexual die hard, conduct to the fact that changed for the worse and the real individualality of hu human race upshot assigned result sin and ineluctable death. This very sinful predetermined t oneness of the creator god, empower man with rationalize will, ie, the ability to equal in their give way, in a human, rather than godly. non so man became like the rally - explains Augustine - that is the flesh that the irritate does non have, and that lives by itself, ie, a person ... So when one person lives, not by God, he is like a devil. In this very human proclivity to live not man and for God is generated still by the grace of God, which is direct down only the chosen.\n share the human race at all times of its earth into two categories (the man is keep living on God), Augustine says: These discharges we symbolically named two hail, ie the two societies of peo ple, of which one is intended harness perfect(a)ly with God, and the other to undergo eternal punishment with the devil. '