Major Works

• Against the Academicians (386)

  - Against the Academicians and The Teacher. Trans. Peter King. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1995.
  Augustine’s attempt to critique the “academic” skepticism of Cicero’s late Roman disciples. From the Publisher: “These new translations of two treatises dealing with the possibility and nature of knowledge in the face of… More

• The Free Choice of the Will (395)

  - De Libero Arbitrio Voluntatis in On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings. Trans., Peter King. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010
  Excerpt: “Book One EVODIUS: Please tell me: isn’t God the cause of evil? AUGUSTINE: I will tell you once you have made clear what kind of evil you are asking… More

• The Literal Meaning of Genesis (415)

  - De Genesi ad Litteram in St. Augustine: The Literal Meaning of Genesis, Trans., John H. Taylor. Long Prairie: Newman Press 1982
  Excerpt: ” CHAPTER 1 The interpretation of Scripture. The meaning of heaven and earth. 1. Sacred Scripture, taken as a whole, is divided into two parts, as our Lord intimates when He says: ”A scribe instructed in the kingdom of God is like a… More

• City of God Against the Pagans (427)

  - De Civitate Dei in The City of God Against the Pagans. Trans., R.W. Dyson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998
  Excerpt: “For to this earthly city belong the enemies against whom I have to defend the city of God. Many of them, indeed, being reclaimed from their ungodly error, have become sufficiently creditable citizens of this city; but many are so inflamed… More

• Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manicheans (405)

  - Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manicheans in St. Augustine: The Writings against the Manichaeans, and against the Donatists. Ed. Philip Schaff. Buffalo: The Christian Literature Co., 1887.

• On Baptism, Against the Donatists (400)

  - On Baptism, Against the Donatists  in St. Augustine: The Writings against the Manichaeans, and against the Donatists. Ed. Philip Schaff. Buffalo: The Christian Literature Co., 1887.

• Answer to the Pelagians (412-429)

  - Answer to the Pelagians  in St. Augustine: The Writings against the Manichaeans, and against the Donatists. Ed. Philip Schaff. Buffalo: The Christian Literature Co., 1887.

Commentary

• “The Genesis of St. Augustine’s Idea of Original Sin”

  - Bonaiuti, Ernesto. “The Genesis of St. Augustine’s Idea of Original Sin.” Giorgio La Piana, trans. The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 10 (1917), pp. 159-175.  
  Abstract: “The thought of Augustine on the two ethical categories of sin and grace is of great importance in the history of Christian theology. His system of grace and predestination prevailed for many centuries, although not without strong opposition,… More

• Augustine on Evil

  - Evans, Gillian Rosemary. Augustine on Evil. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.  
  From the Publisher: “Augustine, perhaps the most important and most widely read Father of the Church, first became preoccupied with the problem of evil in his boyhood, and this preoccupation continued throughout his life. Augustine’s ideas about… More

• “Augustine on the Origin and Progress of Evil”

  - Burns, Patout. “Augustine on the Origin and Progress of Evil.” Journal of Religious Ethics, Vol.   16 (1988), pp. 9-27
  Abstract: “Augustine distinguished apparent evil, conflict and corruption among bodies from true evil, the self-initiated corruption of created spirits. Angels and humans fail to maintain the perfection of knowledge and love given by God and then turn… More

• “Augustine and Aquinas on Original Sin and the Function of Political Authority”

  - Weithman, P.J. “Augustine and Aquinas on Original Sin and the Function of Political Authority.” Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 30 (1992), pp. 353-76.  
  Excerpt:   “THE REDISCOVERY OF Aristotelian moral thought in the thirteenth century influenced medieval political theory profoundly. Recovery of Aristotle’s Politics,’ for example, made available to political theorists of the period… More

• “Augustine’s Compatibilism”

  - Rogers, Katherin. “Augustine’s Compatibilism.” Religious Studies, Vol. 40 (2004), pp. 415-435.  
  Abstract: “In analysing Augustine’s views on freedom it is standard to draw two distinctions; one between an earlier emphasis on human freedom and a later insistence that God alone governs human destiny, and another between pre-lapsarian and… More