In order to elucidate the significance that the anti-Manichaean writings have in the evolution of Augustine’s thinking on the dynamics of conversion, this article addresses three concerns. The role that Augustine assigns to reason and imagination in the intellect’s movement to and from the truth. The part the will plays in the mind’s conversion and the implications of the fall for the will’s proper functioning. The ramifications of Augustine’s understanding of the dynamics of conversion in relation to the Ad Simplicianum and the Confessions.

The article treats the different datings of the Sermo 90 A (Dolbeau 11, Mainz 40), and the author also gives his own point of view taken from a brief study of the topics, the words used in the sermon, and also the biblical hermeneutic.

The article examines Augustine’s work De sancta uirginitate from an ecclesiological point of view, leaving behind the old gender reading of the work. It makes also some commentaries about the discussion on uirginitas in the early Fifth Century and in Augustine’s works.

The article examines the Cento Virgilianus (= Cento), focusing on the author, and the literary structure of the composition. It also examines the quotations of the Bible and of pagan authors, and the way in which they are combined within the Cento.

St. Augustine’s Cassiciacum dialogues have a subtle yet important political dimension. Nevertheless the focal points of the dialogues are essentially nonpolitical, and some of Augustine’s statements can be construed as hostile to civic life and to any thoughtful reflection on the best political order. This article argues that these apparent inconsistencies are not signs of a contradictory attitude but reveal a three-pronged strategy by Augustine to forge a properly Christian attitude towards political life, a strategy that involves (1) debunking patriotic fervor, (2) inflaming the love of truth, and (3) re-engaging the ciuitas from a higher perspective.

This article examines Augustine’s De Trinitate IV, 20 and II, 5: the sending of the Son and the Holy Spirit to the just ones, underlining the visible missions of these Persons of the Holy Trinity. De Trinitate XV, 17-19 is also analysed to explain the relationship of the Holy Spirit with the concept of fraternal love.

The article examines the relationship between Basil of Caesarea and Gregory Nazianzen and St. Augustine of Hippo, making a brief treatment of how this relationship can be and has been studied, in order to develop and explain the texts where Augustine uses and says that he is using works of Basil of Cesarea or Gregory Nazianzen.

The article examines Augustine’s though about the three loves in sermo 549, explaining briefly that Augustine had in mind the anthropological ideas of Varro and not those of the Neoplatonic. It explain also the opposition between the city of this world (amor sui) and the City of God (amor Dei).

The article tries to show that the intellectual vission, as is presented in Gn. litt. 12, is more complex that what the old scholarship had affirmed, and it has implications with images in a very special way.

In this article, based on an analysis of De beata uita and Præceptum, the author tries to make clear that the guidelines of ancient philosophy had a longer effect on Augustine than a study of his opinion of grace alone or even his own words in the Confessiones could surmise.

This article deals with the comment that Augustine makes to Timaeus 41 A-B, making a review of the reception of the interpretation that Augustine makes and finally it presents briefly the teaching of Augustine about the spiritual body.