Saint Augustine's intellectual and spiritual journey to understanding God was influenced by philosophical tendencies, Biblical Scriptures and personal experiences. Since Augustine did not believe any of these viewpoints completely, he spent most of his life searching for other types of truths that w...

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The God of Plato is the God of the Bible, Justin accepted this platonic tradition. ... Justin believed in many of Plato's theories such that the soul had Kinship to God, although he did not agree with all his theories. ...

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Plato's disciples would insist that God or the One is beyond our reach, but that by philosophical contemplation, the soul could ascend to its natural place, which is in the heavens with the Logos, and thus come to know all things. ...

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Joyce in appropriating his protagonist with the mythical figure of Daedelus denotes Plato's thought of the "demiurge " which translates as a "craftsmen"" or an "artisan"" who has the responsibility for "forming the universe"" [Thomsett: pg. 220]. ...

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