According to his contemporary Jerome, Augustine "established anew the ancient Faith".[a] In his youth he was drawn to Manichaeism and later to neoplatonism. Augustine's family name, Aurelius, suggests that his After his baptism and conversion to Christianity in father's ancestors were freedmen of the gens 386, Augustine developed his own approach to Aurelia given full Roman citizenship by the Edict of philosophy and theology, accommodating a variety of Caracalla in 212. Augustine's family had been methods and perspectives. Roman, from a legal standpoint, for at least a century when he was born. Believing that the grace of Christ was indispensable to human freedom, he helped formulate the doctrine It is assumed that his mother, Monica, was of original sin and made seminal contributions to the of Berber origin, on the basis of her name, but as his development of just war theory. When the Western family were honestiores, an upper class of citizens Roman Empire began to disintegrate, Augustine known as honorable men, Augustine's first language imagined the Church as a spiritual City of God, is likely to have been Latin. distinct from the material Earthly City. His thoughts At about the age of 17, Augustine began an affair with profoundly influenced the medieval worldview. The a young woman in Carthage. Though his mother segment of the Church that adhered to the concept of wanted him to marry a person of his class, the woman the Trinity as defined by the Council of Nicaea and remained his lover for over fifteen years and gave the Council of Constantinople closely identified with birth to his son Adeodatus (372–388), who was Augustine's On the Trinity viewed as extremely intelligent by his contemporaries. .Augustine is recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church, In 385, Augustine ended his relationship with his lover the Eastern Christian Church, and the Anglican in order to prepare himself to marry a ten-year-old Communion and as a preeminent Doctor of the Church. He heiress. (He had to wait for two years because the is also the patron of the Augustinians. His memorial is legal age of marriage for women was twelve.) By the celebrated on 28 August, the day of his death. Augustine is time he was able to marry her, however, he instead the patron saint of brewers, printers, theologians, the decided to become a celibate priest alleviation of sore eyes, and a number of cities and dioceses. Many Protestants, especially Calvinists and Lutherans, consider him to be one of the theological fathers of the Protestant Reformation due to his teachings on salvation and divine grace. Protestant Reformers generally, and Martin Luther in particular, held Born 13 November 354 Augustine in preeminence among early Church Fathers. Thagaste, Numidia (modern-daySouk Luther himself was, from 1505 to 1521, a member of the Order of the Augustinian Eremites. Ahras, Algeria)
Original sin Died 28 August 430 (age 75)
Augustine taught that the sin of Adam and Eve was Hippo Regius, Numidia(modern-day Annaba, either an act of foolishness (insipientia) followed by pride and disobedience to God or that pride came Algeria) first. The first couple disobeyed God, who had told them not to eat of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The tree was a symbol of the order of creation. Self-centeredness made Adam and Eve . eat of it, thus failing to acknowledge and respect the world as it was created by God, with its hierarchy of beings and values