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 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 ...

Robin Lane Fox’s dense and satisfying biography does not attempt to provide an exhaustive account of St Augustine of Hippo’s life, but focuses on the period in which he wrote his Christian masterpiece ...

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 ...

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 ...

“[Augustine] doesn’t really talk about the things you expect in an autobiography. He doesn’t talk about his sister, his brother. He talks about his mother just briefly, when she dies…He was the court ...

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 ...