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"Monica provides a foil for her son's worldly success and spiritual dereliction . . . She is not a reader of Cicero, Homer, or the Neoplatonists, yet it is she who . . . has been in possession of the truth which eluded him . . . His mother enables Augustine to make a point salient to any work of theology - that professors of theology are no more likely to be saved than those of simple faith and learning." (143)