“Seek not to understand

that you may believe, but

believe that you may
understand.”
SAINT AUGUSTINE

- November 13, 354 C.E.

at Tagaste, Numidia
- Bishop of Hippo
- Died: August 28, 430 C.E.
at Hippo Regius 

- one of the Latin Fathers of the Church 

- a fourth century matchless Catholic scholar
( NEOPLATONISM )
- became part of Manichean propaganda
- adapted Classical thought to Christian teaching

Aurelius Augustinus
- Confessions and The City of God
- Doctor of the Church

- primary Western savant: “the contention

relationship” against solipsism

“[ Even ] If I am mixed up,

I am.”
SAINT AUGUSTINE

- Augustinians follow the Rule of St.

Augustine.

- He grew up in an interfaith home.

- Struggled with lust and immortality during

his early life.

- Patron saint of converts, brewers,

printers, theologians, and sufferers of sore
eyes.
Aurelius Augustinus
 What is the
“ SELF ”
according to Augustine?
 Augustine's sense of self is
his relation to God, both in
his recognition of God's love
and his response to it—
achieved through self-
presentation, then self-
realization.
Augustine agreed that man is
of a bifurcated nature. An
aspect of man dwells in the
world and is imperfect and
continuously years to be with
the Divine and the other
capable of reaching
immortality.
 Augustine tries to
reconcile his beliefs
about freewill.

One can switch

Augustine’s
“omnipotent being” and
“original sin”.
 Time is nothing in all
actuality except for
exists just in the human
personality’s worry of
the real world.
 “Seek not to understand
that you may believe, but
believe that you may
understand.”
Where does St. Augustine
of Hippo believed in?
GOD
“An sakong puso dai
matutuninong
sagkod na Ikad
mapasapuso ko.”

-AUGUSTINE
“You have made us
for yourself,
O Lord, and our
hearts our restless
until they rest in
You.”

-AUGUSTINE