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 ...

St. Augustine, whose feast day is today, Aug. 28, had an aversion for gossip to the extent he even placed a special notice in his house so that he and those who visited him would avoid this evil. Some ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...

Though labeled a biography, this book on the fourth-century North African saint is better read as a complex study of the man and his thought. Eschewing a chronological cradle-to-grave narrative, ...

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 ...