Augustine Of Hippo Research Paper

Augustine of Hippo, also known as Saint Augustine, is one of the most important and well-known theologians in the history of the Christian religion. Augustine has one of the most powerful conversions ever in the Church, a change of belief and behavior, which led to his most influential written work, Confessions. A writer and thinker, Augustine's treatises, sermons and letters number into the hundreds. He put his gifted mind to work on subjects such as grace, the Truth, sexuality and free will. Augustine's thought has had a profound impact on both Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. According to his autobiography, Augustine seems to have converted to religion not a culture.
Augustine was born in 354 in Thagaste and died in 430 in Hippo. He was born to a pagan father and devout Christian mother. Augustine was born with a brilliant mind so he enjoyed academics at Carthage, that is until he became restless for truth and virtue.

Finally, weeping with despair and crying out to God, he thought he heard a child's voice chanting. Taking this to be a sign from God, Augustine opened his copy of Paul's epistles and read the first thing he saw. His eyes fell on Romans 13:13-14. Augustine later wrote of the moment, "I neither wished nor needed to read further. At once, with the last words of this sentence, it was as if a light of relief from all anxiety flooded into my heart. All the shadows of doubt were dispelled."(153). The newly-converted Augustine was baptized, along with his son and a friend on Easter. Augustine’s journey shows that he didn’t settled down into a culture, but that he took a self journey to be able to call himself a Catholic Christian. The quotes show the emotion show to his journey to religion. His religion doesn’t define him but it is a large part of him and it makes him whole because before he was constantly searching for something