Augustine: Conversions to Confessions may be informative to the nth degree, but it's not dense. Robin Lane Fox says he wrote this biography for all readers -- even those in a post-Christian age who do ...

Princeton University Press has launched a series called Lives of Great Religious Books. Each volume is a "biography" of a significant religious text. That is, each volume looks at the origins and the ...

I can't help wondering, after reading James O'Donnell's brilliant but frustrating biography of St Augustine, whether a biographer who has researched his subject assiduously for many years has the ...

I pity anyone who decides, like James J. O’Donnell, to write a “new” biography of Augustine of Hippo (354-430), the North African bishop, saint, and dauntingly prolific theologian. Besides having to ...

This book is good for the soul. It will do wonders for your humility by leaving you dizzy and gasping for breath, and thinking: “I don’t understand. I don’t get it. Why am I not as clever as Miles ...

One of the most significant Christian thinkers of all time, St. Augustine (354 to 430) was enormously influential in framing such theological concepts as original sin, just war, grace and ...