Augustine of Hippo and Martin Luther on Original Sin and Justification of the Sinner

The book is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the development of Augustine's theology of Original Sin and Justification. Here the emphasis is placed on the defining moments of this development process. These moments are the second half of 390s (period during which the Church Father wrote two of his key-works: De diversis quaestionibus ad Simplicianum (396/397) and Confessiones (397-400)) and the last twelve years of his literary career, with emphasis on the works he produced in the heat of the long and bitter confrontation with Julian of Aeclanum. In the second part Pereira dea