ABSTRACT
After completing the Confessions, Augustine remained immensely prolific, writing and dictating texts until the end of his life. He produced works of biblical commentary (notably The Literal Commentary on Genesis) and of theological exposition (above all, The Trinity and The City of God). He produced hundreds of letters and – it is estimated – thousands of sermons, of which some eight hundred survive. He produced a huge number of occasional treatises, often written under pressure to address a specific set of questions or combat a heretical point of view. Always an accomplished controversialist, he never allowed himself to disengage from the difficult process of forming and refining church doctrine. But he never again wrote anything remotely like the Confessions.
