From Aurelius Augustinus to Saint Augustine of Hippo - DOI: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v25i2.2187
The present paper is concerned about the study of Saint Augustine conversion, which enabled us to identify the pagan behavior transformations, from Christianism advent (second and forth centuries). Thus, the research was based both on St. Augustine’s classic: Confessions (his autobiography); and a b...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2008 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM) |
| Repositorio: | Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.uem.br/ojs:article/2187 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciHumanSocSci/article/view/2187 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Santo Agostinho Santo Ambrósio Cristianismo transformação social Antigüidade Idade Média |
| Sumario: | The present paper is concerned about the study of Saint Augustine conversion, which enabled us to identify the pagan behavior transformations, from Christianism advent (second and forth centuries). Thus, the research was based both on St. Augustine’s classic: Confessions (his autobiography); and a bibliographic support. As a conclusion, his conversion was specially due to Saint Ambrose (bishop of Milan). He was conquered by St. Ambrose’s personality, mainly while accompanying his preachings, because he was overcome by St. Ambrose’s delightful words. Because of this, besides being the greatest Christian thinking articulator during the ancient times, and the medieval culture creator, St. Augustine’s conversion represented the conversion of an era, the pagan, to another one, the Christian |
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