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I read an abridged version of St. Augustine's CITY OF GOD in 1984, long before I converted to Christianity in 1992. I later preached a sermon from it, "How Much Time Do We Have?" at St. Matthews C.M.E. Church in 1994, my parental church outside of St. Louis, Missouri, in Meachum Park. Augustine of Hippo, the "Father of Theology" was an "African Latin," as were other early church fathers like Origen, Tertullian, pre-papal Rome.