I befouled, therefore, the spring of friendship with the filth of concupiscence, and I dimmed its lustre with the hell of lustfulness…. To love and to be loved was sweet to me, and all the more when I succeeded in enjoying the person I loved. Yet, had these no soul, they would not surely inspire love. I loved not as yet, yet I loved to love….I searched about for something to love, in love with loving….For within me I had a dearth of that inward food, Yourself, my God, though that dearth caused me no hunger….For this reason my soul was far from well, and, full of ulcers, it miserably cast itself forth, craving to be excited by contact with objects of sense. (From ages 17-19) “To Carthage I came, where a cauldron of unholy loves bubbled up all around me.
Some of his struggles and Augustine’s conversion begin now “in his own words”: He was born in Thagaste about 60 miles from Hippo. He served as the Christian Bishop of Hippo on the coast in Algeria from 396 to 430. As a theologian/philosopher he was always in all ways devoted to “ Sola Scriptura” meaning “by Scripture alone,”-a fundamental theological doctrine that posits the Christian Scriptures are the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice. He was raised on the Bible by his mother and it was the words in the Bible which brought him to his Christian faith. Augustine, Son of Tears-Fra Angelico, 1395 – 1455 It includes the autobiography of his sin-plagued youth and his conversion to Christ. 386.Īugustine’s Confessions, written in Latin, was finished in c. The Lord spared his praying mother Monica (332-387) to see the conversion of her son to Christ-a year after his conversion in c.
In his late teens and 20’s he struggled with sexual impurities and various current philosophies, primarily with Manichaeism.
Augustine did not give his life to Christ until he was c. Monica) was a Christian and raised him as such. His Roman mother Monica (now known as St. Augustine of Hippo, also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian, philosopher, and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. Augustine in His Study-Sandro Botticelli, 1480
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