Christian History articles from August 2000

Christian History archives from August 2000

DID YOU KNOW?(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Misinterpreted for centuries/this painting now sheds light on Augustine and his remarkable life. Until the 1950s scholars thought this painting depicted Jerome, as the piece is the third in a series of scenes from Jerome's life. Then one...

A GIANT-BUT A MAN.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Because Augustine is such a towering figure in Western history, one of our goals for this issue was to describe his "everyday" self. We discovered he was both more extraordinary and more human than the legend we knew. Yes, he was a...

From the Readers.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Worth Remembering I truly appreciated your recent issue, "How the West Was Really Won." Finally, someone has revisited the past without revising it. I think all Americans can appreciate the pioneering spirit and the importance of the...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
August 1, 2000... There is a slight mistake on page 29 ("Timeline"). In 1848 gold was discovered near Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California, along the American River. Sutter's Fort is 48 miles away in mid-town Sacramento. GERALD WARD Sacramento, California...

THE DARK HEART FILLED WITH LIGHT.
August 1, 2000... Augustine's early years reveal an intense, proud, and sensual man who yearned to know truth. Few writers have captured Augustine's personality as vividly as did Robert Payne in "Augustine: The Sensualist" in The Fathers of the Western...

Confessiones.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Aurelius Augustines A.D. 400 To show how greatly God has changed him, Augustine tells all. This book is something of a first, and its title might mislead later readers. What Augustine has written, a few years after becoming...

THE BISHOP AT WORK.
August 1, 2000... Augustine saw himself not as a saint, but as a pastor with a job to do. In the tenth book of his Confessions, Augustine tells us that his life as a bishop was a life of sin, and he repents of all the sins of his ministry--all the rancor...

De Civitate Dei.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... De Civitate Dei Aurelius Augustinus A.D. 426 This book on "the City of God" should find a ready readership despite its heft--1,500 pages. This is a book "for the ages," but never more relevant than now. It is a wonder that bestselling...

AUGUSTINE & THE BATTLE FOR ORTHODOXY.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Augustine's Life 354 Born at Thagaste, North Africa 361 Experiences serious illness while in grammar school 370 Studies rhetoric in Carthage, takes a mistress c. 371 Father dies; son Adeodatus is born c. 372...

FIGHTING WORDS.
August 1, 2000... Forged in the heat of theological battle, Augustine's five most distinctive teachings remain controversial. Despite Augustine's long and dominating shadow over 1,500 years of Western church history, his central ideas have not been...

Semi-Augustinians.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... A few monks--and eventually most of the church--found both Augustine and Pelagius a little too extreme. The verbal battle between Augustine and Pelagius raged for a full 25 years before the final condemnation of the latter's views at the...

INFLUENTIAL ANTAGONISTS.
August 1, 2000... Augustine's life and ministry were shaped by his encounters with these intellectual adversaries. SYMMACHUS (c. 345-c. 402) Augustine's pagan patron Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, Roman prefect, was everything Rome admired: wealthy,...

WHAT WOULD AUGUSTINE SAY?
August 1, 2000... The fifth-century theologian answers five crucial twenty-first-century questions. Sex GOD'S BLESSING OR HUMANITY'S CURSE? W. Jay Wood I have decided that there is nothing I should avoid so much as marriage," Augustine wrote...

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Though Augustine's earthly existence was confined to the fourth and fifth centuries, his influence cannot be confined to any era, church, region, or subject. Consequently, authors (or editors) wishing to publish books about him generally have...