Augustine of Hippo
354 – 430 Roman African philosopher, theologian
The Church Father who shaped Western Christianity and the confessional memoir.
- Religion
- Christian; a bishop and later saint whose ideas defined Western Christian theology. He converted from Manichaeism after a restless youth.
- Affiliations
- Bishop of Hippo in Roman North Africa. No secret society.
Augustine fused Christian faith with Neoplatonist philosophy in works like Confessions and The City of God. His ideas on grace, sin, time, and the self run through medieval and modern thought. Confessions is often called the first true autobiography.
Connections
- influenced Plotinus — Augustine credited Neoplatonism with freeing his thought before conversion.
In the timeline
- 420 The deicide charge and Augustine's doctrine of the Jewish witness mentioned
- 426 Augustine Sets Out Just War Criteria mentioned