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- proper noun The
religious philosophy of Augustine of Hippo.
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Hence, the term Augustinism is often exclusively used to designate his system of grace.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The word Augustinism designates at times the entire group of philosophical doctrines of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Aristotle and theology, and was under the influence of St. Augustine; hence the name Augustinism generally given to the theological doctrines of that age.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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But there is, to use the term of Gilson (Gilson, 1929), definitely an “Avicen - nizing Augustinism” one of whose best known expo - nents being William of Auvergne.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR 1968
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Certain dogmas in particular he so amply developed, so skilfully unsheathing the fruitful germ of the truths from their envelope of tradition, that many of these dogmas (wrongly, in our opinion) have been set down as "Augustinism."
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The struggle, which was prolonged for two centuries, led to a more profound study of the Doctor of Hippo and prepared the way for the definite triumph of Augustinism, but of an Augustinism mitigated in accordance with laws which we must now indicate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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It aimed at a compromise between the two extremes of Pelagianism and Augustinism, and was condemned as heresy at the Œcumenical Council of Orange in 529 after disputes extending over more than a hundred years.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Renan (Averroes, p. 259) and others believed that the war against Thomism, which was just then beginning, was caused by the infatuation of the Franciscans for Averroism; but if the Franciscan Order showed itself on the whole opposed to St. Thomas, it was simply from a certain horror at philosophical innovations and at the neglect of Augustinism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Augustinism admitted the multiplicity of substantial forms in compound beings, especially in man.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The censure of 1277 was the last victory of a too rigid Augustinism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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