Augustine, a Latin church father, is one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity. He established "the new ancient faith". In his early years he was heavily influenced by Manichaeism and afterwards by the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus, but after his conversion and baptism, he developed his own approach to philosophy and theology to a variety of methods and different perspectives. He believed that the grace of Christ was indispensable to human freedom and was an advocate for the concepts of original sin and just war.
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