Early Life
The place where Augustine was born and raised.
What is Thagaste (modern-day Algeria)?
This person greatly influenced Augustine's conversion.
Who was Monica/his mother?
"I stole that, which I had in plenty, and much better. Nor cared I to enjoy what I stole, but joyed in the theft and sin itself... I loved my own undoing. I loved my error—not that for which I erred, but the error itself."
What is book 2?
The key theme of this book is Sin and Human Nature.
What is Book 1?
What did Augustine steal as a child?
What is a Pear?
The focus of Augustine's education.
What is rhetoric?
He was deeply moved by reading Hortensius by this Roman orator and philosopher.
Who was Cicero?
"I wept at the beauty of your hymns and canticles, and was powerfully moved at the sweet sound of your Church's singing. Those sounds flowed into my ears, and the truth streamed into my heart: so that my feeling of devotion overflowed, and tears ran from my eyes, and I was happy in them."
What is book 9?
The key theme of this book is the Transience of Things and the Permanence of God.
What is book 4?
This is what Augustine heard prior to his conversion experience.
What is the voice of a child?
This is the belief system that Augustine followed prior to his conversion.
What is Manichaeism?
**Manichaeism is a dualistic religion that combined elements of Christianity, Zoroastrianism, and Gnostic thought.
This bishop of Hippo played a crucial role in Augustine's intellectual and spiritual development.
Who was Ambrose?
"Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised... Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in Thee."
What is book 1?
The key theme of this book is the Authority of Scripture and Faith.
What is book 9?
These are the names of the places Augustine taught.
What is Thagaste, Carthage, Rome, and Milan.
This is the age Augustine was when he began his education.
What is 11 years old?
A close friend of Augustine who struggled alongside him with moral issues, later also converting to Christianity.
Who was Alypius?
"For by Thy judgments was I stricken, but Thou wert beating me as with rods of gold, that I might learn to hope in Thee, and not in any other thing."
What is book 5?
The key theme of this book is the Search for Truth.
What is book 3?
The age gap between Augustine and his Fiancee.
What is 20 years?
**Augustine was nearly 30, while she was 10 years old.
During his school years, Augustine found himself unable to conceive of God without this.
What is Physical Substance?
This person was very close to Augustine, and was also Augustine's son through his first mistress.
Who was Adeodatus?
"And I marveled to find that at last I loved you and not some phantom instead of you; yet I did not stably enjoy my God, but was ravished to You by Your beauty, yet soon was torn away by from You again by my own weight, and fell again with torment to lower things."
What is book 7?
What is book 7?
This is the verse that drew Augustine to Christ.
Romans 13:13-14