Though an important figure in the early Christian church, Augustine of Hippo was not actually a Christian until the middle of his life. He was a very thoughtful philosopher, and he studied and eventually taught at Carthage. Soon after he was baptized into the Church, he became the bishop of Hippo. Augustine wrote over a hundred works throughout his life, and he thought to be the "first medieval man and the last classical man." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo ) His works included topics about ethics and the human will as well as studies of relationships in society. He was a very influential man in western thought and in the early Christian Church.
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