| Augustine is a protean thinker, a man whose major works range so widely as to defy the summary and commentary we can present for Athanasius. |
| Origen and Augustine belonged to the Alexandrian school, which was prone to allegorization, largely because of their neo-Platonic philosophy. |
| But for Augustine the relationship between faith and reason is not what it later became for the medieval schoolmen. |
| Whereas Augustine focuses on the trinitarian nature of God, Denys picks up the Johannine interest in the divine attributes. |
| However, Saint Augustine realised that the essentially non-worldly nature of Godhead was not conveyed by these means. |
| Touchingly, it is the name that Augustine, while still a Manichee, chose for his son. |
