Saint Augustine
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Augustine of Hippo, born A.D. 354, Tagaste; died August 28, 430, Hippo Regius (modern Bône, now Annaba, Algeria) is a Saint and Doctor of the Church according to Roman Catholicism. In the Eastern Orthodox he is also a Saint, the Blessed Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo.
Born in present day Algeria, the eldest son of Saint Monica, he was of Berber (Amazigh) origin and was educated in North Africa and baptized in Milan. His works—including The Confessions, which is often called the first Western autobiography—are still read around the world.
415 – Augustine wrote The Literal Meaning of Genesis in which he argued that Genesis should be interpreted as God forming the Earth and life from pre-existing matter, allowed for an allegorical interpretation of the first chapter of Genesis, but called for a historical view of the remainder of the history recorded in Genesis, including the creation of Adam and Eve, and the Flood. He also also warned believers not to rashly interpret things literally that might be allegorical, as it would discredit the faith.
c. 426 – Saint Augustine completes City of God, in which he wrote:
- "Some hold the same opinion regarding men that they hold regarding the world itself, that they have always been . . . . And when they are asked, how, . . . they reply that most, if not all lands, were so desolated at intervals by fire and flood, that men were greatly reduced in numbers, and . . . thus there was at intervals a new beginning made. . . . But they say what they think, not what they know. They are deceived . . . by those highly mendacious documents which profess to give the history of many thousand years, though reckoning by the sacred writings, we find that not 6,000 years have yet passed."
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