Augustine of Hippo

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Augustine was a North African rhetor who was baptized in Milan in 387 and became bishop of Hippo. He wrote Confessions, The City of God, and a huge set of treatises and sermons. He argued against Donatists that sacraments do not depend on the minister's purity, and against Pelagians that grace precedes human merit. He died in 430 while Vandals besieged Hippo.

North African rhetorician whose conversion at Milan he told in the Confessions. As bishop of Hippo he shaped Western theology of grace and the church; he died as the Vandals besieged the city.

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