Who wrote "Confessions?"
Augustine of Hippo
Did he write anything else around that time?
yes
What?
"The City of God"
What time period was it written in?
Patristic Era
Who influenced him first?
Manichaeism
And after?
Plotinus
Was he a Christian?
yes
Since when?
386
What did he do at that time?
developed his own approach to philosophy and theology
Hold old was in 386?
32
Where did he live?
North Africa
Where was he bishop of?
Hippo Regius in north Africa
What did he think you needed as part of human freedom?
grace of Christ
What doctrine did he help create?
doctrine of original sin
And what  theory did he contribute to?
just war theory
When did he formulate the church as a sacred city?
unknown
When the Roman Empire ended, did he separate church cities from material cities?
yes
What was the concept called?
Church as a spiritual City of God
Did his ideas carry much weight back then in the world?
yes
When did he die?
28 August 430