St. Augustine

Cited in Why You’re Christian as the Christian thinker through whom Plato was transmitted to the West — the essay’s argument that classical Greek philosophy reached modern moral thought filtered through a Christian interpretive lens.

Context: Augustine of Hippo (354–430 AD) was a North African bishop and theologian, one of the most influential figures in Western Christianity. His synthesis of Platonic philosophy with Christian doctrine (in works like Confessions and The City of God) shaped medieval and modern Western thought.

Where this appears

• Why You’re Christian — “Plato through St. Augustine” — the conduit by which Greek philosophy was Christianized en route to the modern West.