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This is the second of a 5-part series that will blog through Trevin Wax’s choices for Christianity’s Most Important Theologians.

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We will explore each to show why Trevin and others find these figures so influential. The first post was on Athanasius.

Augustine is almost universally loved by Christians. Indeed, those who find cause to reject Augustine often do so based on a particular issue they find problematic in his teachings.

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Rarely is someone a full-blown anti-Augustinian. Certainly for all Western Christians Augustine is an unrivaled figure in the history of Christian reflection. Indeed, there is hardly a subject that is not shaped by his writings and ministry.

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Augustine’s Life

We actually know a great deal about Augustine’s life, his world, and his body of writings.

This is due largely to the fact that Augustine gave us maps to his life: first in his spiritual autobiography (Confessions) and then late in life he left a list of his theologic