The Confessions of St. Augustine

The confessions is probably Augustine's most widely read work. The Roman provinces of Numidia Certensis, Numidia Militiana, Africa Proconsolares and Africa Bizekenna were home to a variety of Christians by the mid-300s. These factions were grouped on two sides of what historians call the Donatist controversy,. A theological schism rooted in Augustine's home turf that had begun back in 311.