For 10 points, name this Church Father who wrote the City of God and Confessions.
This thinker argued that the phrase "in the beginning" indicates not a temporal beginning, but the origin to which we return. He discussed different methods of interpreting signs when reading scripture in On Christian Doctrine. In one work, he recounts a vision in Ostia that he experienced with his mother, Monica. He used the sack of Rome as an example of the defeat of an earthly construct "of man" that is in conflict with the title divine domain. In one work, the voice of a child telling him to "take up and read" the Bible catalyzes his conversion from Manichaeism to Christianity. For 10 points, name this Church Father who wrote the City of God and Confessions.
This thinker argued that the phrase "in the beginning" indicates not a temporal beginning, but the origin to which we return.
Saint Augustine of Hippo [or Saint Austin]