Augustine's intellectual conversion: the journey from Platonism to Christianity

Augustine's conversion to Christianity

The way of authority

The development of Augustine's Christology

The way of reason

The problem of evil and the development of Augustine's metaphysics

The graded ascent

The rejection of Platonic ascent

The Ostia ascent

Augustine the Porphyrian.

Introduction : Augustine's conversion to Christianity

pt. I. The way of authority and 'the falsity of Photinus'. The way of authority

The development of Augustine's Christology

pt. II. The way of reason and the ascent of the soul. The way of reason

The problem of evil and the development of Augustine's metaphysics

The graded ascent

The rejection of Platonic ascent

The Ostia ascent

Conclusion : Augustine the Porphyrian.