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

• 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.

• MillenarianismRelated: Augustine’s influential nonliteral reading challenged expectations of a future earthly thousand-year reign.

• TertullianRelated: Augustine represents a later, more institutionally influential stage of North African Latin theology.

• CassiodorusRelated: Cassiodorus built on Augustine’s account of how secular learning could serve biblical interpretation.

• CatechesisRelated: His treatise on instructing beginners addresses how to teach people entering the faith.

• Creation ex nihiloRelated: In Confessions, he argued that time itself began with creation rather than preceding it.

• PelagianismRelated: His arguments for original sin and necessary grace became the most influential rebuttal.

• TranscendenceRelated: Augustine describes God as higher than the human mind yet inwardly present to it.

• Church FathersRelated: His work became a major source for Western accounts of grace, sin, and biblical interpretation.

• Divine justiceRelated: Augustine developed influential accounts of human culpability and God's just judgment.

• Middle PlatonismRelated: Augustine’s encounter with Platonist writings carried their ideas into Christian philosophical theology.

• Philosophy of religionRelated: His reflections on evil, time, and belief became lasting philosophical resources.

• Phoenician languageRelated: His remarks on Punic words and speakers are among the latest evidence for the language’s survival.

• SallustRelated: Augustine cites Sallust when discussing Roman moral decline and civic virtue.

• SalvationRelated: His arguments about grace and original sin deeply influenced Western doctrines of salvation.

• SermonRelated: His work on Christian teaching and interpretation influenced the theory and practice of preaching.

• AugustinianismNarrower topic: His writings supply the central arguments and authority of this tradition.

• Fall of ManRelated: Augustine developed influential accounts of inherited sin grounded in Adam’s transgression.

• Infant baptismRelated: He defended infant baptism in arguments about sin, grace, and salvation.

• Alaric IRelated: The sack prompted Augustine to begin writing The City of God in response to its religious and political shock.

• Christian anti-JudaismRelated: His witness doctrine defended Jewish survival while assigning Jews a subordinate religious role.

• Christian philosophyRelated: His accounts of evil, time, memory, and faith became foundational Christian philosophical resources.

• Classical theismRelated: He joined Christian creation doctrine with influential Platonist metaphysics.

• Epistle to the RomansRelated: His conversion account and theology drew deeply on Paul's letter to the Romans.

• HellRelated: Augustine defended the permanence of punishment in influential Christian theology.

• Sacramental theologyRelated: His account of signs and sacraments became a major resource for medieval theology.

• Sexual moralityRelated: His account of disordered desire became a lasting influence on Christian sexual teaching.

• Soul (spirituality)Related: Augustine developed influential Christian arguments about the soul, self-knowledge, and immortality.

• Academic skepticismRelated: His critique shows how the tradition became a problem for Christian accounts of truth.

• Christianity in AfricaRelated: His life and thought reveal the intellectual depth of ancient African Christianity.

• NousRelated: His account of divine illumination recast themes associated with intelligible knowledge.

• Religious ethicsRelated: His accounts of love, sin, and political order became major sources for Christian moral reflection.

• SignRelated: His distinction between natural and conventional signs influenced later theories.

• PatristicsBroader topic: His works on grace, sin, and the church became central subjects of patristic study.

• Adam and EveRelated: His interpretation of Adam and Eve strongly influenced Western Christian teaching on original sin.

• Anthony the GreatRelated: Augustine recounts how stories of Anthony influenced conversions in Confessions.

• ApologeticsRelated: The City of God answers accusations that Christianity weakened the Roman Empire.

• ApuleiusRelated: Augustine discussed Apuleius and the Golden Ass, preserving a later Christian perspective on his reputation.

• Dream argumentRelated: Augustine discusses the difficulty of distinguishing dreams from waking life before Descartes.

• History of philosophyBroader topic: His thought shows how classical philosophy was reworked within Christian intellectual history.

• Medieval philosophyRelated: His accounts of time, will, and divine illumination remained influential in medieval debates.

• Peter BrownBroader topic: Brown’s biography situates Augustine’s thought within the conflicts and social world of his time.

• Tree of the Knowledge of Good and EvilRelated: His account of humanity’s first disobedience strongly influenced Christian readings of the fruit’s consequences.

• Christian literatureRelated: His autobiographical and theological writing became a lasting Christian literary model.

• HomileticsRelated: His On Christian Doctrine includes influential guidance on teaching and communicating Christian truth.

• The Burial of the Count of OrgazBroader topic: He appears beside Stephen, assisting at the count’s burial.

• The Golden AssRelated: His discussion of Apuleius and magic shaped later Christian readings of the novel.

• Africa (Roman province)Related: His life and writings show the province’s enduring role in late Roman Christianity.

• Church historyRelated: His theology influenced debates and institutions across centuries of church history.