Augustine of Hippo
Confessions, City of God
The bridge between antiquity and Christendom. The Confessions invented autobiography as a spiritual form; the City of God reframed history as a pilgrimage between two cities. His synthesis of Neoplatonism and Christian theology shaped Western thought for a millennium.
Key works
- Confessions~400— The first great autobiography
- City of God~426— History as sacred drama
- On the Trinity~416— The psychological analogy