Saint Augustine

Here VM uses Saint Augustine 's view of human nature as depraved in order to explore the subtleties and ambiguities of intention.

The title-page quotes from Shakespeare (What's past is Prologue) and Cicero (That cannot be said too often which is not yet understood). The chapters run from Women and the Struggle...

The title paraphrases one of the two epigraphs, in which St Augustine maintains that separately . . . the woman herself alone is not the image of God: whereas the man alone is the image...

MAS published a work of scholarship, Biblical Fragments, in two volumes, with her name, and an epigraph in Latin from St Augustine about belief in God.

Dorothy L. Latz is at pains to emphasise the importance for ES of the thinking of such fellow Augustinians as (apart from St Augustine himself), Gerard Grote , Henry Suso , Ruysbroeck , Bernard of Clairvaux

In her religious poetry she was influenced, like other women of her circle, by St Augustine , Marsilio Ficino , Saint Bonaventure , and Greek patristics. Her secular and religious poems share certain attitudes...

Though the focus of her life was religion, the seventeenth-century WT expressed in several genres an urge to write: pious meditations, lively familiar letters, and in all probability a long sequence of the annals of...

At the age of twelve she entered the school run by the English Augustinian Canonesses at St Monica's , at Louvain in present-day Belgium. Dorothy L. Latz notes the influence on her of St Augustine

Latz also finds her style to be poetic, reflecting the influence of mystics like St Augustine and Ruysbroeck (whose work was later translated and discussed by Evelyn Underhill ); Thimelby quotes and cites these two...

She did not take advantage of her opportunity to study theology while at the Anglican foundation of King's, but became interested in religion through reading philsophy and poetry from her father's library. Plotinus , St Augustine

Her father's death plunged the PresbyterianHW into a crisis of religious faith and a conviction that the goodness of God was a myth. Hating the Puritanism in which she had grown up, its stress...

One of her stories about the tender conscience she had as a child (about stealing an apple, but putting it back again) reminded her husband of St Augustine 's story in his autobiography of robbing...

At Liège on her twenty-second birthday, MW began an autobiography on the model of St Augustine 's Confessions, which takes her life to the age of fifteen only.

RW 's St. Augustine was published in the United States as part of a series of biographies sponsored by D. Appleton and Company .