St. Augustine,Books

<h2 >Works[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Augustine_of_Hippo&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Works" >edit</a>]</h2>

<div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle" >Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo_bibliography" title="Augustine of Hippo bibliography" >Augustine of Hippo bibliography</a></div>

<i>Saint Augustine</i> painting by Antonio Rodríguez</div>

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<p >Augustine was one of the most prolific Latin authors in terms of surviving works, and the list of his works consists of more than one hundred separate titles.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#cite_note-134" >[134]</a></sup> They include <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologetics" title="Apologetics" >apologetic</a> works against the heresies of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianism" title="Arianism" >Arians</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatists" title="Donatists" class="mw-redirect" >Donatists</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeans" title="Manichaeans" class="mw-redirect" >Manichaeans</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagians" title="Pelagians" class="mw-redirect" >Pelagians</a>; texts on Christian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine" title="Doctrine" >doctrine</a>, notably <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Doctrina_Christiana" title="De Doctrina Christiana" class="mw-redirect" >De Doctrina Christiana</a></i> (<i>On Christian Doctrine</i>); <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exegesis" title="Exegesis" >exegetical</a> works such as commentaries on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Genesis" title="Book of Genesis" >Book of Genesis</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalms" title="Psalms" >Psalms</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus" class="mw-redirect" >Paul's</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_to_the_Romans" title="Letter to the Romans" class="mw-redirect" >Letter to the Romans</a>; many <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sermons" title="Sermons" class="mw-redirect" >sermons</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter(message)" title="Letter (message)" >letters</a>; and the<i>Retractationes</i>, a review of his earlier works which he wrote near the end of his life. Apart from those, Augustine is probably best known for his <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions(St.Augustine)" title="Confessions (St. Augustine)" >Confessions</a></i>, which is a personal account of his earlier life, and for <i>De civitate dei</i> (<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_God(book)" title="The City of God (book)" class="mw-redirect" >The City of God</a></i>, consisting of 22 books), which he wrote to restore the confidence of his fellow Christians, which was badly shaken by the sack of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome" title="Rome" >Rome</a> by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigoths" title="Visigoths" >Visigoths</a> in 410. His <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Trinity" title="On the Trinity" >On the Trinity</a></i>, in which he developed what has become known as the 'psychological analogy' of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity" title="Trinity" >Trinity</a>, is also among his masterpieces, and arguably one of the greatest theological works of all time. He also wrote <i>On Free Choice Of The Will</i> (<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_libero_arbitrio_(Augustine)" title="De libero arbitrio (Augustine)" >De libero arbitrio</a></i>), addressing why God gives humans free will that can be used for evil.</p>