The new book by Dr. Jared Ortiz of the Hope College religion faculty suggests a new approach to St. Augustine’s “Confessions” by framing the famous text within the context of the early Christian saint ...
The Conversation: The book that changed me: how Augustine’s Confessions has travelled with me for decades, bringing meaning and insight
In this series, writers nominate a book that changed their life – or at least their thinking. Before me as I write lies a book – or should I call it a relic? Augustine’s Confessions in the Oxford ...
The book that changed me: how Augustine’s Confessions has travelled with me for decades, bringing meaning and insight
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 ...
The Independent: Confessions by Augustine, book of a lifetime: A Christian masterpiece
The Independent: Augustine: Conversions and Confessions by Robin Lane Fox, book review
Life Name Augustine of Hippo, also known as Saint Augustine or Saint Austin, [36] is known by various cognomens throughout the many denominations of the Christian world, including Blessed Augustine and the Doctor of Grace[20] (Latin: Doctor gratiae).
St. Augustine was bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430 and one of the Latin Fathers of the Church.
Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus) lived from 13 November 354 to 28 August 430. He was born in Thagaste in Roman Africa (modern Souk Ahras in Algeria). His mother Monnica (d. 388), a devout Christian, seems to have exerted a deep but not wholly unambiguous influence on his religious development. His father Patricius (d. 372) was baptized on his ...