The teenage theft of pears from an orchard is the springboard for Garry Wills' latest exploration of Augustine of Hippo's "Confessions." In "Saint Augustine's Sin," the award-winning historian ...

Somehow I made it through two seminary degrees and almost two decades of pastoral ministry without reading The Confessions of Augustine. Having read the book over the last month, this is equal parts ...

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 ...

St. Augustine famously confessed to a life of lust and sinfulness as a young man, including a longstanding relationship with a woman who was not his wife. He never named the woman, and like so many ...

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 ...

In which, in the moment of confession, two figures emerge: the apologist and human self-portraiture. From the very beginning self-scrutiny is a danger zone. St Augustine by Sandro Botticelli In his ...

Documentaries can feel like exercises in, at best, information dumping—and sometimes, manipulation. Films like this year's Blackfish, which examines the treatment of killer whales at Sea World, seek ...

Augustine was a prolific writer who left behind a sprawling archive of theological treatises, biblical commentaries, sermons and letters, some of which are still being uncovered having been preserved ...