Augustine Dualism

At thirty Augustine is a professor of liberal arts in Rome and soon wins the appointment of Public Orator in Milan, the imperial capital. In Milan he meets the bishop of Milan, Ambrose, and at the age of thirty three Augustine is baptized and converted to Catholic Christianity. Ambrose played a significant role in the development of Augustine, by introducing him to the neo-Platonists philosophy, as well as a more gratifying method of interpreting scripture. The neo-platonic philosophy emphasized the unity of God, the search for truth and that the good and beautiful are the basis for human existence. This view of reality was far more rewarding for Augustine than the dualistic view of Manichaeism.
As a result of his new found faith, Augustine