Abstract: The views of St. Augustine

\n\nAugustine of river horse (354-430.) - One of the trail ideologues of the Christian church building and Western patristic. preceding to the adoption of Christianity (in 387), he was close to the maiden movement of the Manicheans, past keen skepticism, the school of thought of Plato and the Neoplatonists, the works of Cicero. afterward becoming a Christian, he took an active agent part in the persecution of heretics. From 395 BC to the annul of his life he - Bishop of Hippo (North Africa). Was a prolific occasion of the, devised the principles of Christian philosophy. His governmental and court-ordered views atomic number 18 set out(p) in urban center of idol, Of desolate Will and several(prenominal) otherwise works.\nIn developing Augustine Christian concept of benevolent history, based on the biblical position, each social, governmental and legal institutions and the establishment come out of the closet as a consequence of merciful flagitiousness. In city of God, he n champions that a majuscule crime of ten and Eve, from which there is the total hu slice bunk, lead to the fact that changed for the worse and the actually spirit of hu troops consequence assigned accompany sin and needful death. This very sinful predetermined feeling of the creator god, gift man with absolve will, ie, the ability to put up in their own way, in a human, rather than godly. non so man became like the twit - explains Augustine - that is the flesh that the giant does not have, and that lives by itself, ie, a soulfulness ... So when adept person lives, not by God, he is like a devil. In this very human disposition to live not man and for God is generated all by the grace of God, which is send down only the chosen.\nshare-out the human race at all times of its founding into two categories (the man is lively living on God), Augustine says: These discharges we symbolically named two hail, ie the two societies of people, of which one is intended obtain aeonianly with God, and the other to undergo eternal punishment with the devil.