Origin of the Soul in St. Augustine's Later Works Origin of the Soul in St. Augustine's Later WorksThis book rounds off Robert O'Connell's study of St. Augustine's view of the human condition, begun is St. Augustine's Early Theory of Man, A. D. 386 391, and continued in St. Augustine's Confessions: The Odyssey of Soul. The central thesis of the first book, and guiding hypothesis of the second, proposed that Augustine thought of us, in "Plotinian" terms, as "fallen souls," and that in all sincerity he interpreted the teachings of Scripture as