HUM 130 Lecture : tutorial questions.docx
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Justin martyr, dialogue with trypho, a jew; augustine, city of god, book 19, chs. Our two readings this week are drawn from two distinct periods of development within this period the second and early fifth centuries ce. 165 ce) writes in a climate where christianity is generally tolerated, but working hard to communicate itself in a context where the prestige ways of explaining the world lie outside the boundaries of christianity. Justin is trying to do two things: (1) to prove that christianity is the fulfillment of. Judaism, and (2) that this constitutes the universal law that now governs all people. Augustine of hippo (354-430), a bishop in roman north africa, writes at a time when. The city of god is, in part, an attempt to identify the now christian roman. Empire directly with the kingdom of god on earth. 2 oct selections from the qu"ran, surahs 1, 2, 8, 17, 47, 67, 75, 90, 109, 114 avicenna, the.