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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1780 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

301–400

The Fourth Century

1 work

c. 390

Latin

On True Religion

De Vera Religione

Augustine of Hippo · 354 – 430

Addressed to the patron who had led him into Manichaeism. Philosophy and religion should never have been separated, Augustine argues; evil is not a thing but a defect in a good thing; and the mind that judges between better and worse is already reaching for a standard above itself.

Western · TreatiseRomansJohnPsalms1 CorinthiansFull text