Augustine

I remember the first time I read Augustine. I was a final year undergraduate at Cambridge on the Classical tripos but taking the course, Christian Life and Thought to A.D. 451 from outside my faculty. Those were the days: university courses could actually use the term 'A.D.' to refer to exactly the...

Editors' Note: The following article was an opening statement given by Dr. Trueman at Saints and Skeptics , a staged debate between Aurelius Augustine and Bertrand Russell. The cultural and intellectual influence of Augustine of Hippo is indisputable. In his own day, he was bishop of a relatively...

Editors' Note: The following article was an opening statement given by Dr. Trueman at Saints and Skeptics , a staged debate between Aurelius Augustine and Bertrand Russell. The cultural and intellectual influence of Augustine of Hippo is indisputable. In his own day, he was bishop of a relatively...

Augustine is read widely in the secular academy as a philosopher foundational to understanding the development of western civilization and for his relevance in the modern disciplines of literature, psychology, politics, ethics and aesthetics. One gets the feeling however that secular scholars miss...

Augustine is read widely in the secular academy as a philosopher foundational to understanding the development of western civilization and for his relevance in the modern disciplines of literature, psychology, politics, ethics and aesthetics. One gets the feeling however that secular scholars miss...

When Gilbert Meilaender writes a book, I press "pre-order" at Amazon. Not because I agree with everything he writes, but because he, as an astute theologian and ethicist, is consistently insightful about the nature of what he calls "the perennial problems of moral life." I was first introduced to...