Troy Augustine Biography Christian Medieval Religious Texts Discussion Augustine (or St. Augustine, in the Christian tradition) is the first writer to fore

Troy Augustine Biography Christian Medieval Religious Texts Discussion Augustine (or St. Augustine, in the Christian tradition) is the first writer to foreground his own life in a book and widely regarded as an inventor of autobiography as a genre (though biography was a long-established genre, usually reserved for the lives of military and political figures). What does Augustine’s use of biography do to develop his religious views? How does it shift a reader’s thinking about his place in the world? his place in God’s creation? How does the form of Augustine’s book help advance his ideas? In what ways does the Christianity that Augustine is presenting (as one of the church’s earliest theologians) transform the value of personal identity – and of autobiography?