17th century in the field of the French catholic theology is traditionally called the century of St. Augustine. But how the theological thought of this father was translated in the context of the early modern France? In this paper prof. Gdrard Ferreyrolles tries to reconstruct the 17th century augustinism. He highlights three key directions of the theological thought: dogmatic, where the most important was the problem of the Divine Grace; political theology which was in the process of rapid change in the 17th century, and theology of history traditionally considered as a chef-d'oeuvre of the Augustinian thought. But despite the dominance of the augustinism in the 17th century, this trend soon started to gradually decline.

Keywords:St. Augustine, augustinism, 17th century, theology of history, doctrine of grace, political theology, theology and early modernity.