On The Christian Philosophy Of History

The Christian philosophy of history comes from the "Bible" and Augustine's "City of God". Hans Kung said that "In ancient times before Augustine, neither the philosophy of history, nor Historical Theology." This assessment is fair. After Augustine's "City of God" and the Bossuet's "World History", the world has not yet appeared a complete system of Christian philosophy of history.Because the city of Rome was sacked, Augustine began to ponder the problem of evil. This paper is divided into three chapters, in addition to the introduction and conclusion.The theory of ancient Greek philosophy belongs to the cycle, to join the Jewish-Christian tradition, Heaven take place of the cycle. So we said that the idea of Western civilization from "two Greek" civilization.Next chapter is from the historical origins of the beginning of this time, compared to representatives of the Greek Platonic philosophy and Augustine's concept of time, Christianity has changed the ancient Greek "cycle" concept of time. Augustine also argued the origin of the pagan City of God and the earthly city the separation of good angels and evil angels.The second chapter of innovation history, civilian participants in the history of the history and explains the three parts of the history of growth and process. Faith in Christ Jesus is a grace operation, non-repeatable, unique, complete, ultimate and final rather than the old tune. Christian faith requires that people continue to observe "the sign of the times", aware of the limits of their own lives, the time to take responsibility and use every day, but to entrust their own time God's hands, in the "Prayer" and the "Meditation" for reflection and review.The third chapter explains the purpose of history. Christian Providence put forward the theory of ancient abandoned the pessimism. Augustine also discussed the purpose of City of God and city of earth. Augustine examines the views of past philosophers on the perfection and happiness of this life they made for their futile efforts. For against those views, he shows the peace and happiness from beginning to end until the future belongs to the City of God, or Christ's people. One thousand years later, French philosopher Bossuet repair sorrow entry point from the God of Augustine full play, the country's prosperity is determined by the Divine. The Christian eschatological perspective must be a grace in the world history, the history of mankind needs a Messiah.Finally, the Christian philosophy of history made a summary of the Christian view:world history is the activities of meaningful and valuable. The impact of Christian philosophy of history can not be ignored, because our "historical" sense was obtained from the Christian philosophy of history.