Preface Saint Augustine was one of the greatest Christian thinkers of all time. It is amazing that almost sixteen centuries later he is still one of the most quoted of all Christian writers. Yet most Christians do not have ready access to the approximately twenty volumes of his writings as found in The Fathers of the Church. Nor will many ever read the nearly five thousand pages translated in The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. What is more, Augustine did not write systematically on topics like God,
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