SAINT AUGUSTINE, THE MAN CONQUERED BY DIVINE GRACE
SAINT AUGUSTINE, THE MAN CONQUERED BY DIVINE GRACE

Summary/Abstract: The journey of conversion of Saint Augustine is complex and requires commitment and strong will. Augustine sees and experiences several obstacles: selfishness, corruption of human nature, the manifestation of lust as a consequence of original sin, the roots and symptoms of spiritual pollution; idleness becomes an opportunity to please oneself and to please men, that is, a source of selfishness and freedom is to be affirmed through sin and against justice. There is no shortage of sensuality, the embrace of cheerful fun life, the imprudence and passion make him realize that love is not a game. Adherence to Manichaeism does not help him to reach the truth and to find a solution to the problems of reality and above all to the problem of evil. He is also disappointed with the works of the Neoplatonic philosophers. He was happy when he met Christ, the Incarnate Word, who showed men the humble way to follow in order to possess God, and deserved them the grace to be able to walk on it. Augustine remains one of the major lights with which Providence illuminates the journey of the City of God, in the time of his earthly pilgrimage.

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