When Augustine was a young teacher of rhetoric in the imperial capital of Milan, he saw one day on the streeet a poor byt happy beggar. The beggar's drunken happiness contrasted sharply with August…
St. Augustine is not only the bridge that links ancient philosophy and early Christian theology with the thought of the Middle Ages, but one who, in his philosophy and especially in his epistemolog…
This book traces a pilgrimage of unbounded grace, passionately wrestling with the spiritual questions that have engaged thoughtful minds since time began. It is Augustine's utter candor about his o…
An introduction discusses the historical importance of DDC. Seven seminal essays written during the last seventy-five years provide representative discussions of the important topics of DDC. The vo…
"Context !Context! Context! It is the clue by which Ellingsen recognizes the fundamental coherence among Augutine's highly divergent theological formulations: it is the test by which he establishes…
Erich Przywara (1889-1972) was a Jesuit priest of German-Polish origin and a prominent Catholic philosopher and theologian of the twentieth century. He is best known for advocating the metaphysical…
Historians keep telling us that we have a more intimate know-ledge of St. Augustine than of any other individual in the whole world of Antiquity. But who really knows him, and what exactly is it th…
This is a fine book. It is rich, literate, beautifully written when beauty is appropriate. Central to its merits is Meagher's way of eliciting the 'power' of Augustine's thought... In short, Meaghe…
One of the main reasons why it is not easy to write on the theology of St. Augustine is that his doctrine, far from being static, developed in the course of his life. St. Augustine may therefore be…
In this Saint Augustine lecture, the author draws together from the various writings of Augustine the major themes in his approach to non-Christians. Highlighting Augustine's emphasis upon the mora…