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Augustine of Hippo: A Biography

Peter Brown · 2000

A comprehensive biographical study of Augustine of Hippo that traces his life through the declining Roman Empire, examining both external historical changes and his internal intellectual and spiritual transformations. Brown's narrative explores Augustine's journey from schoolboy to Catholic bishop, emphasizing the interplay between personal development and broader historical forces.

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Augustine's restless mind remade Western Christianity by turning the hunger for wisdom into a theology of grace, will, and inwardness.

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faith-and-doubt

'I should love Wisdom, of whatever kind it should be; search for it, follow hard upon it, hold on to it and embrace it with all my strength.'
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Augustine came to see man as utterly dependent on God, even for his first initiative of believing in Him.
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self-and-identity

'Men go to gape at mountain peaks… and yet they leave themselves unnoticed; they do not marvel at themselves.'
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'O wretched man that I am! Who shall set him free?' Augustine had moved imperceptibly toward a new reading of Paul.
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Augustine was shocked by their violence, and anxious to seem to 'belong' to them: to be an 'Eversor' was 'a notable way' of standing out.
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At the end of the year, he had attracted the notice of Symmachus… Augustine avoided the fate of the last great historian of Rome.
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