SAINT

AUGUSTINE
“Take care of your
body as if you were
going to live forever;
and take care of your
soul as if you were going
to die tomorrow”

- SAINT AUGUSTINE
Background of Saint Augustine
•St. Augustine was the bishop of Hippo (now Annaba, Algeria) from 396 to 430. A
renowned theologian and prolific writer, he was also a skilled preacher and
rhetorician. He is one of the Latin Fathers of the Church and, in Roman
Catholicism, is formally recognized as a doctor of the church
•He Is a fourth century philosopher whose groundbreaking philosophy infused
Christian doctrine with Neoplatonism
•Born 13 November 354 AD, Thagaste
•Died 28 August 430 AD, Hippo Regius, Annaba, Algeria
VIEWS ON BODY AND SOUL
•Augustine believed the soul and the body make up a human. He asserted that the soul is
immortal because it possesses truth. Because the soul is capable of grasping scientific
truth, and because truth is immortal, the soul too is immortal.
•The soul must be a reality because of its capacity to reason
•The mind existed within the body, it was not a prisoner there, but rather was in the place
where its greatest happiness lay.
•The soul apart from the body and vice-versa cannot be recognized as the whole man
•The souls are created but immaterial substance simultaneously that bears the image of
God.
THANK YOU
GODBLESS!! 