... Saint Augustine's studies always provided arguments for both sides of controversies. But who was Saint Augustine? In the century of Rome's fall, the single most influential thinker in the Western intellectual tradition, Saint Augustine (354-430), lived. Most commonly, he is known as "St. Augustine of Hippo"; a Christian Neoplatonist, North African Bishop and the Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church. During the intellectual "dark age" of Europe, only a few significant thinkers were active, and -except ... of the writings and teachings of ancient masters. One of the most important of these...

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