REFLECTION FOR HIS LIFE ST.
AUGUSTIN
Name: ARCAMO OMAR A.
Course: BSA
Year & section: 1’YEAR 1A
Instructor: ESTEBAN SABAR
INTRODUCTION
Reflection about life of St. Augustin is always be in truth because truth needs no defending. Being
truthful means that we can grow and mature learning from our mistakes.
Augustin was born in 354 in North Africa in the town of Thagaste. His Father was Patricius and his
Mother was Monica. His Father was a successful businessman and his mother was an ardent Christian
always praying and hoping for the corversion of his son Augustin. A young man Augustin has an ambition
to become a lawyer so he ask her mother that he will study and her mother asked a friend for the
expenses his sons studies. Augustin was sent to carthage, he studied in Madauros and he later became a
student in rhetoric. He is a past learner student became famous in rhetoric Augustin has a servant
because he belong to a commoners family, but he treat his servant as a friend and later they’ve got a
child named adeodatus but they were not married because Augustin is a pagan same as his father. But a
year before he got a son his father was converted to Christianity and baptized before he died.
Augustin was stunned a famous rhetoric and lawyer can’t spoke. The confused of Augustin from his very
young was arouse. Have got confusions to himself and to others. He runs and collapse when he woke up
he heard voice from nowhere saying “tolle lege” means “take and read” he then realized what truth is,
he studied Neoplatonism philosophy and in the year 386 he resigns e hair of rhetoric and that year he
was converted to the catholic church in the year 387 he was baptized being a Christian by st. ambrose in
milan. The convertion of st. Augustin has its very big impact to the faith of the Christian in his time and
especially to his mother that has a strongest faith to god. He then.
Augustin’s confession is a passionate and intensely intimate baring of his soul as be share his struggles
with sin and exults in his grace-filled relationship with God. It is not a carefully crafted narrative
presenting Augustin in the best light but rather in the rawness of his struggles, and the reader feels as
though she is intruding into his private conversation with God. He opens window into the worldview of
that time when secular ambition to be a great orator and teacher was greatly prized and the religions
arena was one of debate about concepts which competed with, and incorporated, the ideas of the
Greek Philosophers. Life for the individual held the same delights and temptation that we encounter
today, although in different guise. As he shares his road to Christianity with us, Augustin Discuses various
issues which become themes of his work. This assay explores his complex thinking on women and
sexuality, which create inner conflict and tension between his desire for the physical while wanting to
attain to the spiritual, as they control him and obstruct his path to spiritual union with God.
The most prominent woman in Augustine’s narratives is his mother Monica. She plays a significant role I
the drama of his life and as his mother she is one of the most influential people, sending him very mixed
messages on the one hand that be should be converted but on the other to hold off being baptized until
be can live a faithful life, that marriages is the relationship which he must desire but that it is acceptable
to marry for eareer
The Senses- knows the quality of the body
- The sensation is an activity exercised by the souls through the body. The body undergoes the
impressions of our bodies; and the soul, through the impression gleaned from the body,
acquires knowledge of the corporeal world. Therefore, according to St. Augustin, bodies are not
known immediately, but through mediation. “the soul gathers the image, not the sense, of all
the sensible object.
Basis of the two cities: earthly city
- Dominated by the principle of self-love
- It devotees are those to whom material interests are more important than spiritual.
