Notes On Prof. Ormond's Patristic Philosophy Lectures…
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There exists a hierarchy of ideas and beings. Man must rise above all things sensuous, immerse himself in the Divine Unity, and bury himself in the gloom of Divine Being to contemplate God. In the mystical process we penetrate the vale and approach tbe divine light. Culmination of the Patristic Period— St. Augustine [o54-430]. St. Augustine was the greatest of the Patristic philosophers and one of the greatest geniuses of all time. He was born at Thagaste, Africa, of a heathen father and a Chri...stian mother. His mother exercised the first great influence over him. He lapsed from the Christian faith however and first embraced the manichaean doctrine of the positive nature of both good and evil. The con- tradictions of manichaeism turned him toward the skepticism of the New Academy, which he met with upon going to Eome in 383, until the writings of the Neo-Platonist s gave him a tendency toward a positive faith. In 386 on hearing the preaching of Am- brosius in Milan he was led back into the church.
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