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HIST 370 A History of Christianity in Medieval Europe
St. Augustine, Confessions
Length 4-5 pages.
Question 1) What is important about the pear stealing incident in that is so critical?
Question 2) Who were the Manichees? What did they believe, & what attracted Augustine to their teachings? Later, why did he begin to question their views?
Question 3) What factors (people, teachings, experiences, etc.) begin to move Augustine toward Christian faith at the end
Question 4) What were the philosophical and/or theological issues that most perplexed Augustine in his youth & young manhood? (Be ready to give specific examples or references.)
Question 5)Augustine acknowledges that he benefitted from the books of the "Platonists", i.e. Neo-Platonists. How was he helped by Neo-Platonic philosophy? Where does he part company with the Neo-Platonists?
Question 6) At what point in his account would you say that Augustine was "converted" to Christianity? How does Augustine understand conversion?