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Augustine of Hippo is one of the most important thinkers for Western theology and philosophy. His understanding of the self, of sin, of redemption, and of sanctification set the tone for all subsequent theology. Even those who disagree with him must still interact with the effects of his thought. St. Augustine’s Confessions introduced the idea of the inner self to the world. It was the first work...

great one; who wert able, (and yet not appearing to our senses) both to hear and help us. For being yet a boy, I began to pray unto thee, my Aid and Refuge, and even then brake the string of my tongue in praying to thee; and being yet a little one, I prayed to thee with no small devotion, that I might not be beaten at school. And when thou heardest not (which yet was not to be accounted folly in me), my corrections, which I then esteemed my greatest and most grievous affliction, were made sport at
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