Augustine’s Spirituality

What is it about?

This essay reviews the two types of spirituality present in Augustine’s Confessions: on the one hand his former Manichaean-Christian belief and its practices, on the other hand his newly won Catholic-Christian mindset. More than ever thought, throughout the Confessions both forms of spirituality appear to be engaged in a breath-taking dialogue. In the Confessions Augustine presents a unique blend of Catholic and Manichaean spirituality which in its turn has inspired countless spiritual writings in the following centuries. I even venture to characterise Augustine’s Confessions as the foundational document of Catholic Christian Gnosis.

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