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11 articles found for “Augustine”

• Augustine of Hippo

  [People]

  Augustine (354–430) was bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa and one of the foremost Church Fathers (theological teachers of the early church) of the Western church. His teaching on grace and sin profoundly influenced the Protestant Reformers.

• Jeong Yak-jong

  [People]

  Jeong Yak-jong (1760–1801) was a Catholic lay leader in late Joseon Korea. He wrote the Jugyo yoji (Essentials of the Lord's Teaching), regarded as the first catechism written in Hangul, served as the first president of the Myeongdohoe, and was martyred during the Sinyu Persecution of 1801.

• Augustinians

  [History]

  The Augustinians are a Catholic mendicant order that follows the monastic Rule of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. The order was formed in 1256, when several groups of hermits were united into a single body. It is also known as the order to which Martin Luther belonged as a friar before the Reformation.

• Donatism

  [History]

  A schismatic church movement that arose in North Africa in the early fourth century. Holding that sacraments administered by clergy who had abandoned the faith during persecution were without effect, it separated from the Catholic Church. Through its controversy with Augustine, it left a lasting mark on ecclesiology and sacramental theology.

• Ambrose

  [People]

  Ambrose (c. 339–397) was a fourth-century bishop of Milan and one of the leading Fathers of the Western Church (theologians and leaders of the early church). He defended the Nicene faith against the Arians and baptized Augustine.

• Paul Chong Hasang

  [People]

  Paul Chong Hasang (Jeong Ha-sang, 丁夏祥, 1795–1839) was a lay leader of the Catholic Church in late Joseon Korea. After the Sinyu Persecution, he worked to rebuild the shattered church and to bring in clergy. During the Gihae Persecution, he left behind the *Sang Jaesang Seo* (Letter to the Prime Minister) and was martyred. His baptismal name was Paul.

• Erasmus

  [People]

  Erasmus (c. 1466–1536) was a Dutch Catholic priest and humanist scholar. In 1516 he produced the first printed Greek New Testament to be published and circulated, a work that profoundly influenced the Reformation and Bible translation.

• Martin Luther

  [People]

  Martin Luther (1483–1546) was a German theologian and monk. In 1517 he launched the Reformation with his Ninety-five Theses, a movement that became the starting point of Protestantism.

• Augsburg Confession

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The Augsburg Confession is the confession of faith that the Lutheran princes presented to Emperor Charles V at the Imperial Diet of Augsburg in the Holy Roman Empire in 1530. It is the foundational doctrinal standard of the Lutheran Church.

• Pax Romana

  [History]

  The Pax Romana (Latin for "Roman Peace") refers to the roughly two hundred years, from the accession of Augustus (the "Caesar Augustus" of the Bible) to the late second century, during which the Roman Empire enjoyed relative stability.

• Battle of the Milvian Bridge

  [History]

  The Battle of the Milvian Bridge was fought on October 28, 312, near the Milvian Bridge over the Tiber River outside Rome, where Constantine defeated Maxentius. It is widely known as the event that turned Constantine toward Christianity.