Calvinism and Arminianism
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SOVEREIGNTY, FREEWILL AND SALVATION<br />
PROF. M. M. NINAN<br />
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO<br />
St. Monica the mother of Augustine <strong>and</strong> St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (354-430)<br />
Christianity came to North Africa in the Roman era. According to historian Theodor<br />
Mommsen what is now Mediterranean Algeria was fully Christian by the fifth century. A<br />
notable Berber Christian of Algeria was Saint Augustine (<strong>and</strong> his mother Saint Monica),<br />
important saints of Roman Catholicism. Christianity's influence declined during the chaotic<br />
period of the V<strong>and</strong>al invasions but was strengthened in the succeeding Byzantine period.<br />
After the Arab invasions of the 7th century, Christianity began to gradually disappear<br />
Berber Algeria<br />
The traditional Berber religion is the ancient <strong>and</strong> native set of beliefs <strong>and</strong> deities<br />
adhered to by the Berber autochthones of North Africa. Many ancient Berber beliefs were<br />
developed locally whereas others were influenced over time through contact with other<br />
traditional African religions (such as the Ancient Egyptian religion), or borrowed during<br />
antiquity from the Punic religion, Judaism, Iberian mythology, <strong>and</strong> the Hellenistic religion.<br />
The veneration of saints which exists among the modern Berbers in the form of<br />
Maraboutism was absorbed into Roman Churches through the influence of Augustine.<br />
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