Review 6 (St. Augustine's Life)

Birth year of St. Augustine

• 354

• 361

• 372

St. Augustine birth place is Souk Ahras, Numidia, presently it is a country named:

• Italy

• Algeria

• Spain

• Portugal

What sect did St. Augustine joined after leaving the Catholic Church, this sect was founded by the prophet Mani in 240?

• Manichean

• Manichevalianism

In his late teens, he developed an affair with a young woman from Carthage. She gave birth to his illegitimate named ________ in 372.

• Adeodatus

• Cicero

• Mani

What book written by Cicero that inspired St. Augustine h to seek the truth, in whatever form he might find it?

• Hortensius

• Hedonism

• On the Beautiful and Fitting

St. Monica: Mother

_____________ : Father

• Cicero

• Patricius

• Adeodatus

Who is the presiding priest when St. Augustine was baptized in Milan?

• Ambrose

• Anthony

• Paul

Augustine was inspired by reading about the life of Saint Anthony of the Desert. He also reported hearing an inner voice that told him to take up the Bible and read. He was drawn to a passage by St. Paul aimed at nonbelievers becoming transformed.

What passage he is referring?

• John 3:16

• Philippians 4:13

• Romans 13:13-14

St. Augustine wrote a book that narrates his conversion, v  – this is an influential Christian apologist and important example of biographical text.

 

• Retractiones

• Confessions

• De civitate Dei

  (The City of God)

This book was written near the time of his death as he reread his works and made comments on them correcting himself where he thinks he was wrong in his earlier writings and simply reflecting on the works that he wrote.

• Retractiones

• Confessions

• The City of God