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Works, testimonies and further readings are distinguished. Dates refer to composition or first publication, as specified in each entry.
These records present three major works from a vast body of treatises, letters and sermons. On the Trinity, On Christian Teaching, the early dialogues, the anti-Pelagian writings and the Reconsiderations are not yet indexed separately; this is a selection, not a complete bibliography.
01397–401
Written around 397–401, early in his time as bishop, the work presents conversion as a slow and unfinished process rather than a single moment. It is a retrospective literary reconstruction, not a diary, and its last three books are scriptural commentary rather than autobiography.
02413–426
Begun in 413, three years after Alaric’s Goths sacked Rome in 410, and completed around 426, the work grew over long years of composition and controversy. Its earthly city is not a theory of the state in the modern sense, and its passages on war, punishment and coercion have been read in conflicting ways.
03388–395
Begun in Rome around 388 and completed in Africa by about 395, the dialogue belongs to his early writings against the Manichaeans. Pelagians later quoted it in their favour; in his Reconsiderations Augustine replied that it had not discussed grace because that was not its question.