Lecture by Prof. Sarah Byers (Boston College). What happened, exactly, in Augustine’s famous “conversion scene”? Professor Byers will show that Augustine is drawing on Stoic and Platonic epistemology and action theory to understand how divine grace acts on, and with, the human mind.

Lecture by Prof. Sarah Byers (Boston College). What happened, exactly, in Augustine’s famous “conversion scene”? Professor Byers will show that Augustine is drawing on Stoic and Platonic epistemology and action theory to understand how divine grace acts on, and with, the human mind.

Lecture by Prof. Sarah Byers (Boston College). What happened, exactly, in Augustine’s famous “conversion scene”? Professor Byers will show that Augustine is drawing on Stoic and Platonic epistemology and action theory to understand how divine grace acts on, and with, the human mind.

The Stoic Roots of Augustine’s Conversion

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