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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...

Those my mother full well knew; and desired to commit to them the clay of which I was afterwards to be new moulded, rather than the image itself.1 BUT in this my childhood (wherein was less fear of me than in my youth) I loved not my book, and I hated to be forced to it: yet was I held to it notwithstanding: wherein it was very well for me, but I did not well for myself: for I would never have taken my learning, had I not been constrained
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