Why, then, do I set before You an ordered account of so many things? it's certainly not through me that You know them. But I'm stirring up love for You in myself and in those who read this so that we may all say, great is the Lord and highly worthy to be praised. I tell my story for love of Your love.

Disturbed by the unruly behavior of the students in Carthage in 383 he moved to establish a school in Rome where he believed the best and brightest rhetoricians practiced. It is assumed that his mother Monica was of Berber origin on the basis of her name but as his family were honestiores an upper class of citizens known as honorable men Augustine's first language is likely to have been Latin. This belief was shared by many early Christians.

Many Protestants especially Calvinists consider him to be one of the theological fathers of the Protestant Reformation due to his teachings on salvation and divine grace. : /ɔːˈɡʌstɨn/ or /ˈɔːɡəstɪn/;Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430) also known as St Augustine St Austin or St Augoustinos was a Father of the Church whose writings are considered very influential in the development of Western Christianity and philosophy. ".