The great formative thinker for western Christianity was St. Augustine. Still, St. Augustine did not appear from out of nowhere. Here, Father Richard Munkelt discusses the Third and Fourth Century Neo-Platonic environment, that of Plotinus and his followers in particular, which exercised such a great influence on Augustinian philosophy and theology. Taken from the series: "From Augustine and Chrysostom to the Papal-Frankish Alliance Christianity in the Early Middle Ages (395-752) - 2006 Hildebrand Institute"