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.
Created the theology of original sin and irresistible grace — human nature so corrupted by Adam's fall that salvation requires God's gift, not human effort — while the Confessions traced the restless heart's journey toward God: 'our heart is restless until it repose in Thee.'
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