Introduction to Augustine: His Life, Works, Secondary Literatures, and On the Soul and Its Origin and On Christian Doctrine

Introduction to Augustine: His Life, Works, Secondary Literatures, and On the Soul and Its Origin and On Christian Doctrine

Andres S. TANG

This paper aims to give a brief introduction to the study of Augustine in eight parts. 1. Introduction. 2. The life of Augustine. 3. Autobiography. 4. Works including Confessions, City of God, On Christian Doctrine, The Trinity, Literal Commentary on Genesis, sermons, early writings, and written disputes. 5. Bibliography: text and translation, secondary literature, biography, bibliography of the study of Confessions and City of God, bibliography of the study of Augustine's thinking. 6. Recent research on Confessions, City of God, letters, Bible and biblical interpretation, On Christian Doctrine, interpretation of Psalms, Christology, and the theology of grace. 7. Introduction to On the Soul and Its Origin. 8. Introduction to On Christian Doctrine.