Doktryna chrześcijańskiego małżeństwa w De bono coniugali na tle metodologii św. Augustyna

The article introduces the philosophical conception of “Christian marriage” worked out by St. Augustine in the treatise De bono coniugali (400–401 AD) which is a part of his polemics with the Manichaeans and Iuvinian(us). The treatise has been evaluated in the light of the Augustian methodology of De civitate Dei (410–430 AD). The author concludes that in writing De civitate Dei St. Augustine took inspiration from the methodology outlined in the earlier De bono coniugali .