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Augustine as Mentor: A Model for Preparing Spiritual Leaders is unavailable, but you can change that!

Lauded for his thoughts, Augustine of Hippo (354-430) has influenced virtually every philosopher of the last fifteen hundred years. But his personal character and ministry are even more remarkable, for in a time when most monastery dwellers sought solitude, Augustine was always in the company of friends, visiting disciples and writing mentoring letters to those he knew.Augustine as Mentor is...

So, in addition to believing that Jesus was the Christ, a disciple would also have accepted the moral and ethical teachings of the Hebrew Scriptures, as well as His updated teaching like that contained in the Sermon on the Mount. Entry to the ancient city of Hippo Regis where Augustine served as a presbyter (391–395) and then bishop (395–430). The apostles and evangelists who came after Jesus also seemed to follow this pattern of teaching. Luke wrote that Philip, Paul, and Apollos used the Hebrew