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The 124 pages that link to Augustine of Hippo, each with the reason it gives.

• PlatoRelated: His work helped transmit Platonist themes into Latin Christian thought.

• ScholasticismRelated: His authority supplied scholastic debates with foundational theological claims.

• HermeneuticsRelated: Augustine addressed signs, language, and interpretive difficulties in reading scripture.

• Paul the ApostleRelated: Augustine’s reading of Paul shaped later doctrines of grace and human sin.

• CiceroRelated: Augustine credited Cicero’s dialogue Hortensius with awakening his interest in philosophy.

• Natural lawRelated: Augustine developed influential claims about justice and the moral limits of earthly law.

• Problem of evilRelated: His account shaped influential Christian responses to evil.

• NeoplatonismRelated: Augustine drew on Platonist texts to articulate immaterial reality and the soul’s ascent.

• Just war theoryRelated: His account helped establish Christian arguments about when war could be permissible.

• Gospel of MatthewRelated: Augustine defended the traditional order that places Matthew first among the Gospels.

• TheodicyRelated: His privation account and appeal to free will became enduring Christian responses to evil.

• John CalvinRelated: Calvin frequently drew on Augustine, especially in discussions of grace, sin, and salvation.

• Late AntiquityRelated: His work joined classical learning to Christian thought during the empire’s transformation.

• Christian ethicsRelated: His accounts of love, sin, and political order became lasting resources for Christian moral thought.

• Divine providenceRelated: Augustine developed influential accounts of God’s ordering of history and human affairs.

• Latin literatureRelated: His writings show how Christian thought transformed Latin literary forms.

• Biblical exegesisRelated: His account of signs and charity influenced how Christians understood scriptural meaning.

• BishopRelated: His career shows how episcopal leadership joined pastoral work, theology, and civic crisis.

• Original sinRelated: His polemics against Pelagius established a lasting formulation of original sin.

• TrinityRelated: His treatise On the Trinity examines divine unity, personal distinction, and human analogies.

• Christian theologyRelated: His accounts of grace, sin, and the church became enduring theological reference points.

• Sexual ethicsRelated: His account of desire and procreation deeply influenced Christian sexual morality.

• Divine simplicityRelated: His account of God's unchangeability helped establish simplicity in Latin theology.

• PetrarchRelated: Petrarch’s spiritual self-examination was deeply shaped by Augustine, whom he read and admired.

• SacramentRelated: His account of sacraments as visible signs of invisible grace shaped Western theology.

• Christianization of the Roman EmpireRelated: His career reflects the growing intellectual and civic authority of Christian bishops.

• Divine hiddennessRelated: His account of divine grace offers a tradition-specific way to understand unequal access to faith.

• Christian apologeticsRelated: His responses to Manichaeism and pagan criticism became influential models of Christian defense.

• North AfricaRelated: His life and writings reveal the region's role in early Christian intellectual history.

• Roman AfricaRelated: His life and writings show the region’s importance in late antique Christianity.

• ManichaeismRelated: His writings preserve a detailed account of Manichaean beliefs and Christian opposition to them.

• PlotinusRelated: Augustine credited Platonist books with helping him understand immaterial reality and divine truth.

• Political theologyRelated: The City of God distinguishes political peace from the ultimate community ordered toward God.

• Grace in ChristianityRelated: His debates with Pelagius strongly influenced Western doctrines of sin and divine grace.

• PurgatoryRelated: Augustine discussed postmortem purgation and the possible benefit of prayers for the dead.

• Historical determinismRelated: His providential account framed history as governed by divine purpose, an influential alternative source of necessity.

• PredestinationRelated: His anti-Pelagian works developed influential accounts of grace, election, and predestination.

• Sack of Rome (410)Related: The sack prompted criticism that Christianity had weakened Rome, which Augustine answered in his writings.

• BerbersRelated: His life and writings reflect the multilingual society of late antique North Africa.

• DemonRelated: Augustine helped establish the influential view that demons are fallen angels.

• JeromeRelated: Augustine corresponded with Jerome and questioned his Old Testament translation choices.

• Punic languageRelated: His writings attest the continued presence of Punic speakers in his North African setting.

• RepentanceRelated: His account of conversion shaped Christian reflections on turning from wrongdoing.

• SanctificationRelated: His account of sin and grace influenced later debates about the possibility and source of holiness.

• Catholic theologyRelated: His accounts of grace, sin, and the Trinity became foundational sources for Catholic theology.

• EuhemerismRelated: The City of God invokes Euhemerus in its criticism of Roman claims about the gods.

• Universal historyRelated: His City of God organized human history around a universal Christian narrative.

• Biblical typologyRelated: He treated events in Israel's history as signs that could point toward Christ and the Church.

• Imago DeiRelated: Augustine connected the image with the human mind and its capacity for relation to God.

• JansenismRelated: Jansenists treated Augustine’s account of grace as their chief theological authority.