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  • 29 - Augustine

  • from A - LITERARY GUIDE
  • Edited by Frances Young, University of Birmingham, Lewis Ayres, Emory University, Atlanta, Andrew Louth, University of Durham
  • Assisted by Augustine Casiday, University of Durham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    01 April 2004, pp 328-341

  • Summary

    Aurelius Augustinus was born on 13 November 354 at Thagaste in the Roman province of Numidia, North Africa. A stream of sceptical epistemology long remained an element in Augustine's mind; it is reflected in the discussion of time in Confessions II. Disbelief in human capacity to grasp profound truth, however, is never far distant from a turning to divine revelation and authority. On that path, during his time as city professor of oratory at Milan, he became converted to Neoplatonism through a Platonic group in the city, some of whom were Christians. In January 391 Augustine visited the harbour town of Hippo Regius intending to found a monastery. The importance of Augustine's numerous anti-Manichee writings, intended to vindicate his own renunciation of dualist heresy. Pelagius' criticisms reached Augustine and were felt to constitute a negation of everything presupposed in the Confessions in which he had stated his case for being a Christian.