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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...

say: Therefore we are, because we are made; and therefore were we not, before our time was to be, so as to make ourselves. And this utterance of thine is itself demonstration. ’Tis thou therefore, O Lord, that madest them: thou who art full of beauty, for they are beautiful: thou who art good, for they also are good: even thou who hast being, seeing these have their beings: yet are they neither so beautiful, so good, nor are so, as thou their Creator art; compared with whom, they are neither beautiful,
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