Generations of historians have represented Augustine of Hippo as the single most important figure in Christianity’s transition from antiquity to the medieval world. He is usually seen as an ...

We think of him as a principal architect of Western civilization, and only St. Paul and our Lord himself have determined the character of the Western church more than St. Augustine of Hippo. But ...

When my students read Augustine’s Confessions, they’re amazed how an African bishop writing in A.D. 400 seems to understand their own anxieties and hopes, their idolatries and dreams. The ...

A new book recovers the significance of the church father’s geographic and cultural roots. To see one notable answer to that question, consider the work of the scholar Catherine Conybeare, who places ...