The ancient vice akrasia is a lazy inclination toward base desires that we know are bad for the soul. Among other woes, Jesus ...

Although aimed at polytheism, Augustine’s conclusions apply perfectly ... material object that a person would worship.

Idolatry is when you worship something or someone who is not God. The Eucharist is God. On the contrary, it is, as St. Augustine proclaimed, a sin not to adore. Receiving Communion presupposes a ...

This division scheme was advocated by St. Augustine in his writings on Exodus ... images or even the saints, since this is idolatry and in direct violation of the First Commandment.

Although aimed at polytheism, Augustine’s conclusions apply perfectly to our anti ... indicating an actual material object that a person would worship. However, idolatry is a bit trickier than that.

St Augustine later confirmed that it in the fourth and 5th years, and also doomed Trismegistus to own idolatry.38 Types of ...

Usually Calvin is linked with the doctrine of predestination, but there was nothing about that doctrine in Calvin that wasn’t first in Luther and nothing in Luther that wasn’t first in Augustine ...

Church fathers like Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, and Augustine of Hippo incorporated philosophical ... a type of legalism and idolatry. By grounding our practices first in Scripture and God’s ...

Augustine of Hippo is one of the most influential thinkers in Western history, holding sway across religious and political divides. Yet Augustine’s reputation in his own day might give us pause.

Augustine of Hippo’s sprawling masterpiece The City of God, written in the early 400s, has enduring relevance for us today. I believe that its wisdom can teach us to inhabit the fractious, polarized ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — A Facebook post with an image of a ship has garnered over 19,000 shares since being posted Wednesday, claiming that the vessel is "a fully intact 1700s-era ghost ship ...