3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Augustine of Hippo — the most influential theologian in Western Christianity — whose Confessions invented the genre of spiritual autobiography and whose City of God provided the political theology of Christian civilization.
Greek-speaking Church Father and Archbishop of Constantinople (398–404 CE) — the greatest Christian preacher of antiquity — whose homilies on the Gospels and epistles are extraordinary literary works, and whose denunciations of the wealth of the Empress Eudoxia led to his exile and death.
Early Christian theologian — the greatest scholar of the early church — who attempted to synthesize Christianity with Platonism, wrote the first systematic Christian theology (First Principles), and who is the original source of Christian universalism (apokatastasis: the restoration of all things).