This influential bishop was a central figure in Augustine’s conversion.

What did Augustine think about the importance of the cultural history behind the Bible?

We looked closely at some of Augustine’s interpretive work in Book 13 of the Confessions. In this book, he reads the first sentence of Genesis very carefully, and in this sentence, he identifies:

Augustine hears a child’s voice telling him to “Pick up and read, pick up and read” at a crucial moment in the Confessions. This is the moment when:

Statistical studies of surviving manuscripts during the Middle Ages demonstrates that during the Medieval period Augustine’s Confessions:

The main reason Augustine hesitates in converting to Christianity is:

Augustine eventually developed a significant disagreement with the Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus. He disagreed with Plotinus’ notion that:

In Book 11, Augustine seeks to answer the question of what the Christian God was doing before the moment of creation. Augustine’s answer is that:

In contradiction to popular pagan ideology of Late Antiquity, Augustine believed that the world:

Augustine became a bishop in Hippo Regius during which decade?

Augustine describes the indecision that led up to his conversion in a very specific way. How does he describe his indecision?

The famous conversion scene in Augustine’s Confessions takes place in:

Augustine, in Book 13 of the Confessions, interprets Genesis’ “Be fruitful and multiply” as a directive to:

The first place Augustine went following his conversion was:

What happens at the Roman port town of Ostia midway through the Confessions? (Hint: This is the last major autobiographical event Augustine records prior to the purely philosophical portions of the Confessions.)