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Bishop and theologian of Roman North Africa, Augustine formulated the doctrines of original sin and grace, wrote the Confessions and The City of God, and defended imperial coercion against Donatist heretics.
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Agostinho de Hipona leans further toward religious than 91% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where Agostinho de Hipona stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, Agostinho de Hipona sits practically at the catalog median.
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Social doctrine of the Catholic Church, combining traditionalist morality and defense of life with concern for social justice, subsidiarity and worker dignity, under the hierarchical authority of the papacy and canon law.
Doctrine of rule by the best, which entrusts power to a minority qualified by virtue, education or birth, rejecting political equality and majority rule, which it sees as a risk to competence.
Greco-Roman philosophy that teaches living according to reason and nature, accepting with serenity what lies beyond one's control, cultivating duty, self-mastery and virtue above pleasure, and recognizing a natural law common to all rational humanity.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian31%
The apostle who carried Christianity into the Greco-Roman world, Paul established salvation by grace rather than Mosaic law, waived circumcision for gentiles and preached submission to constituted authority.
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A city-state governed by the Holy See, the Vatican combines religious sovereignty, an absolute elective monarchy, and clerical administration, functioning as the institutional center of the Catholic Church and a global diplomatic actor.
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Bourbon realm of southern Italy with an agrarian base, popular Catholic piety, counter-revolutionary resistance, and royal centralism prior to unification.
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