Word: augustinianism
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Paul Hindemith, composer and professor of Music at Yale, will give a series of lectures on "Stability and Inflation in Musical Values." The title of tonight's lecture is "Boethian and Augustinian Trends in Music." The lectures, at 8:30 p.m. Monday nights in the New Lecture Hall, are open to the public...
...optimistic doctrine; but after years of vigorous controversy between him and Augustine, the Church decided that Pelagianism was heresy. Heresy or not, Pelagianism was a good deal easier to live with. By the close of the Middle Ages, says Dr. Hardman, the Pelagian doctrine of merit had virtually replaced Augustinian predestination in the practical workings of the Church...
...Church's pragmatic departure from the orthodoxy of Paul and Augustine that gave the leaders of the Protestant Reformation their main theological ammunition against Rome. This Protestant return to Augustinianism, writes Anglican Hardman, led Rome to make "a verbal compromise which suggested the retention of the full Augustinian position but at the same time allowed for those modifications in the position which had been accepted by the Church...
...First of all, this new temper is a vindication-whatever the intent of the liberals-of the Pauline-Augustinian-Calvinistic view of human nature...
...cold, calm February night in 1865, the members of a little science society gathered in the town of Brünn, Austria, to hear a paper on inheritance in plants by an Augustinian monk from the nearby monastery. Gregor Johann Mendel wore a long, black coat and his trousers were tucked into his high boots. He was a plump, genial man with bright, blue eyes...