Aurelius Augustine, the patron saint of Christian theology, is a case in point. Best known for his Confessions and The City of God, Augustine devoted the better part of his last thirty-five years ...

He was the first son of Saint Monica and a pagan father ... much time refuting the writings of heretics. Augustine also wrote, The City of God, against the pagans who charged that the fall of ...

St Augustine is a deeply complex and troublesome figure ... Augustine penned (over eight years) The City of God (426 CE). This whopping great tome explained why, even if Rome had fallen, the elect ...

A celebrated Catholic saint, the theologian and ... In his influential book “City of God,” written between 413 and 426, ...