Augustine wrote his famous memoirs, the Confessions, during 397-398. Considered both a work of high literary art and profound philosophical exploration, Confessions is addressed directly to God as a series of prayers and musings, and is still widely circulated, and very readable, today.
Saint Augustine of Hippo was a Roman African, early Christian theologian and philosopher from Numidia whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. He was the bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa and is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers in Western Christianity for his writings in…
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William Tyndale, born around 1494 in Lollard Gloucestershire, translated the Bible into English during the Reformation and was martyred for it. He studied at Oxford…
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Born in 849 the fifth son of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, Alfred became king in 871 following the reigns of three of his brothers. From…
Philip Melanchthon (the Greek version of his German surname Schwartzerdt) was a German Protestant Reformer, expert in biblical Greek, colleague of Martin Luther, and the…
