Syllabus
Augustine in his world - church in North Africa and the whole Roman empire in the age of Augustine: an overview.
Movements, influences, heresies - manicheism, donatism, pelagianism.
Life in the mirror of autobiography - The Confessions.
Concept of history, church in history - City of God.
Theological and exegetical works - examples of the very broad variety of Augustine´s work.
Polemical works - Augustine as an ?enemy".