# Augustine spends years as a Manichaean hearer, a dualist allegiance he later prosecutes in others

Date: 373

## The fact

From the 370s Augustine was a Manichaean hearer in Africa and then in Italy, as Confessions later tells it. The instrument is that allegiance as a dated religious office of the ear, not of the elect. Later anti-Manichaean tracts reuse the years as a prosecution file. Augustine of Hippo's documented role is: He was a hearer, not a Manichaean elect. Later he wrote against the sect. High on the Confessions' self-report; medium on unique later-harm coefficients of those years themselves.

## Context

Faustus of Mileve is a named Manichaean teacher in the Confessions. Sharing the sect with unnamed hearers is required. Cassiciacum and baptism are the exit rows. Polarisation here is the later use of a youth as a heresy-exhibit, including against others who remained. The setting of Augustine spends years as a Manichaean hearer, a dualist allegiance he later prosecutes in others is the public file around 0373-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [political-polarization](/drivers/political-polarization) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

The attached driver is political-polarization. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: New Advent — Augustine, Confessions, Manichaean books at https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1101.htm (New Advent / translated Fathers). Independent locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, Manichaeism at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official carrier: New Advent — Augustine, Confessions, Manichaean books (https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1101.htm; New Advent / translated Fathers). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, Manichaeism (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: New Advent — Augustine, Confessions, Manichaean books (https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1101.htm; New Advent / translated Fathers).

## Significance

Worsening path from Augustine spends years as a Manichaean hearer, a dualist allegiance he later prosecutes in others on 0373-01-01. A public dualist allegiance followed by a prosecutor's memory is a polarisation path: the later books make the years a cautionary sect-file. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Shared responsibility is part of Augustine spends years as a Manichaean hearer, a dualist allegiance he later prosecutes in others. Naming Augustine of Hippo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0373-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Augustine spends years as a Manichaean hearer, a dualist allegiance he later prosecutes in others under 0373-01-01 for Augustine of Hippo. Established: a sourced public record of Augustine spends years as a Manichaean hearer, a dualist allegiance he later prosecutes in others under 0373-01-01.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat the Champaigne canvas as a Manichaean portrait. Do not date this to 1886 NPNF. Mixed effects of Augustine spends years as a Manichaean hearer, a dualist allegiance he later prosecutes in others are separate paths.

## People

- Augustine Of Hippo: https://factrail.ai/people/augustine-of-hippo

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1101.htm
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/au-manichaean-years