Theology
354 to 430, North Africa
The restless heart, original sin, and the two cities.
Start learning Augustine →Augustine’s Confessions turned an account of his own wayward life into a theology of desire - the claim that every human longing is, beneath its disguises, a longing for God, and stays restless until it finds him.
Augustine’s doctrine of original sin and grace grew from a problem he could not escape: why he could clearly see the good and still be unable to will it. His answer reshaped Western Christianity - and provoked its first…
When Rome fell in 410, the world seemed to end. Augustine answered with The City of God - a vast reframing of all history as the intertwined story of two cities, built by two loves, that will not be separated until the…
In Book 11 of the Confessions , Augustine asks a question that has tormented philosophers ever since: what is time? His answer - that time exists only in the mind that measures it - is one of the most original passages…
Augustine spent years tormented by one question: if God is good and made everything, where does evil come from? His answer - that evil is not a thing but a lack , a hole in the good - reshaped how the West thinks about…
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