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St. Augustine
St. Augustine was born to lead. He shared with all his contemporaries the belief that was the business of philosophy to discover the way to wisdom and thereby to show men the way to happiness or blessedness.
The ultimate source of the saving truths taught by Christianity was the Scriptures, which for Augustine had supplanted the teachings of the philosophers as the gateway to truth.
Augustine did not limit the range of what was reliable. In one experience he tried to vindicate the whole range of human knowledge as being capable of arriving at truth, also liable to err.
Augustine's work was based on his charisma. He was born with the Christian interests. He wanted to share them with the world...