The Stoic Model of Motivation and Action in the New Christian Context

Augustine thought in great detail about how to adapt the Stoic model of motivation and action for use in this new Christian context. The text where you really see it happening that he's thinking this through is the text he wrote right before the Confessions, which is replies to Simpukianus. He starts off thinking that maybe it's sufficient for people to come to some kind of conversion just by hearing preaching,. So the question is, what does it mean for God to call someone? And then we're getting an example of how that works in the life of a concrete person, namely himself.